KTR urges PM to intervene and save weavers

Hyderabad: Handlooms Minister KT Rama Rao has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to intervene and ensure that the hike in GST on handlooms and textiles is not implemented, and save weavers. In a tweet on Friday, the Minister said: “Honourable Prime Minister Narendra Modi ji, on the National Handloom Day you had talked of strengthening […]

Hyderabad: Handlooms Minister KT Rama Rao has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to intervene and ensure that the hike in GST on handlooms and textiles is not implemented, and save weavers.

In a tweet on Friday, the Minister said: “Honourable Prime Minister Narendra Modi ji, on the National Handloom Day you had talked of strengthening #Vocal for handmade. On the contrary to the idea, your government has enhanced GST on handlooms and Textiles from 5 percent to 12 percent, which will be a death knell for the industry. Request you to intervene and save the weavers.”

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Last Sunday, Rama Rao wrote to union Textiles Minister Piyush Goyal to withdraw the decision to increase GST on handlooms and textiles from 5 to 12 percent, effective January 1, 2022.

He said that in the past two years, textiles, particularly the handlooms sector, was going through a tough phase following the Covid pandemic.

At this juncture, revising the GST from 5 percent to 12 percent would affect the industry adversely, he had said in the letter.

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