Govt to rehearse GST-launch in Parliament today
27 Jun 2017 7:00 PM GMT
A mega rehearsal has been planned on Wednesday in the Central Hall of Parliament ahead of the historic GST launch on the midnight of June 30.
The rehearsal, scheduled to be held at 10 PM, may be supervised by either Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar, his deputies Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and S S Ahluwalia, or Secretary Rajiv Yadav, official sources said on Tuesday. Officers concerned from various departments including those from the finance ministry will be part of the rehearsal event, they said.
The event to launch the Goods and Services Tax (GST) will be held in the circular-shaped Central Hall, which witnessed a function to mark 50 years of Independence, and attended by President Pranab Mukherjee, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and a host of senior ministers and bureaucrats, among others.
Mukherjee had piloted the first Constitutional Amendment Bill to bring in GST in 2011 when he was finance minister with the previous UPA regime. Wednesday's rehearsal has been organised to ensure that everything is well-organised and there is smooth conduct of the launch event, the sources said.
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