Two-day meeting of GST Council to begin on Sept 3

The 56th Meeting of the GST Council will be held on the 3rd and 4th of next month in New Delhi. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will chair the meeting. The last GST Council meeting was held at Jaisalmer in Rajasthan, in December last year, during which several decisions related to the Goods and Services Tax (GST) were taken, including a rate cut on fortified rice kernels to 5 per cent and a recommendation to amend the definition of pre-packaged and labelled items.