Increase cess on tobacco items, GST council urged

Times of India | 1 week ago | 13-05-2022 | 01:16 am

Panaji: Civil society organisations and doctors have urged the GST Council to increase compensation cess on all tobacco products to generate additional revenue for the government and to reduce their affordability and consumption which will also help limit the vulnerability to Covid-19 infection and its complications. In their appeals to the GST Council, the organisations are urging it to consider an extraordinary measure of levying compensation cess on all tobacco products to get additional revenues which could significantly contribute to the increased need for resources during the pandemic which could help vaccinations and augmenting the health infrastructure to prepare for a possible third wave. “There has not been any major increase in tobacco taxes since the introduction of GST in July 2017 and all tobacco products have become more affordable over the past three years,” stated oncologist and president, National Organisation for Tobacco Eradication (India), Dr Shekhar Salkar.

Read more

Share:

Similar News

Three members of YUVA excel in IGNOU examination

Times of India | 8 hours ago | 20-05-2022 | 05:12 pm

Times of India

8 hours ago | 20-05-2022 | 05:12 pm

YUVA is a voluntary association of enthusiastic youth based in Panaji and around with a common goal of serving the society and has worked towards it since inception in the year 2012. YUVA was awarded with prestigious National Award for Best Youth Organization by Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Govt. of India. YUVA’s is the only organisation from Goa to have received this honour at the hands of Hon’ble Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Yogi Adityanath and Union Minister Major Rajvardhan Singh Rathore in Noida. Members of YUVA, Raghuvir Mahale (Founder) and Akhil Prabhu Verlekar (Secretary) has recently excelled in completion of Master of Social Work (MSW) from School of Social Work through Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi. Likewise, Radiya Mahale completed Post Graduate Diploma in Intellectual Property Right as well as MA in Hindi. Raghuvir Mahale is a Computer Science Engineer from Goa College of Engineering and has completed PGDBA (Marketing) from Symbiosis. He is a National Award winner for his BE Engineering Project and has been involved in social work for last 10 years. He has won Goa State Youth Award in 2015, Best Social Worker Award in 2016 and has led YUVA to win many accolades over a decade. Radiya Mahale has completed her M.Pharm and successfully runs her own Pharmacy in Panaji whereas Akhil Prabhu Verlekar has completed his MCOM under Goa University. They received the convocation certificates at the hands of J.M. Noronha (Chairman Goa Public Service Commission) in Art and Culture Hall, Panaji on April 26, 2022.

No power for Pernem, Bardez on Sunday

Times of India | 21 hours ago | 20-05-2022 | 04:21 am

Times of India

21 hours ago | 20-05-2022 | 04:21 am

Panaji: The electricity department has announced a general shutdown for nine hours on Sunday, May 22, for entire talukas of Pernem and Bardez and part of Tiswadi to carry out annual monsoon maintenance work at the Tivim substation. The power shutdown will be between 7am and 4pm. All the power cables including 220, 110, 33 and 11kV will be off during the nine hours. As a result of this, there will also be restricted water supply to Pernem and Bardez talukas on Sunday and Monday. The PWD has stated that there will be no production of treated water at the Chandel water treatment plant and the Assonora water treatment plant due to the power shutdown.

Two more get bail in Methar murder case

Times of India | 21 hours ago | 20-05-2022 | 04:14 am

Times of India

21 hours ago | 20-05-2022 | 04:14 am

Panaji: Two accused have been granted bail in the murder case of Vilas Methar who was burnt alive at Salvador do Mundo in 2020. All seven accused have now been granted bail. The last two accused, accused No. 2 and No. 6 Pawan Badigar and Santosh Pillai were granted bail on Thursday. The first accused Altaf Yargatti, after being denied bail by the lower courts and the high court, was granted bail by the Supreme Court. Accused 3, 4, 5, 7, Prashant alias Vishwajeet alias Bhaiya Dabolkar, Khayad alias Shafi Shaikh, Iqbal Nanpuri and Shailesh alias Shailu Shetty were released on bail by the high court. The court found that on perusal of the chargesheet, the roles attributed to Badigar and Pillai based on their voluntary statement before the police following the arrest, and statements of witnesses to police, that they were involved in making fake licence number plates for vehicles used in the offence. They are also alleged to have taken part in criminal conspiracy and were seen discussing the conspiracy in the CCTV footage of a restaurant at Panaji with the prime accused No. 1. Adv Ritesh Rawal and Adv Michael Nazareth appeared for the two accused. Methar had obtained information under the Right to Information Act of irregularities in the building of the first accused at Donwado. In October 2020, Methar, who was driving, was waylaid by two persons who poured fuel on him and set him on fire. He succumbed to his injuries in the hospital. The murder had also taken a political turn with BJP demanding indepth investigation and local MLA Rohan Khaunte demanding CBI inquiry.

Two kids felicitated for excelling in sports

Times of India | 21 hours ago | 20-05-2022 | 04:06 am

Times of India

21 hours ago | 20-05-2022 | 04:06 am

Panaji: Director general of police (DGP) Jaspal Singh on Thursday felicitated two students, Sakshi Ishwar Kale and Nimrit Pasricha for sporting excellence. Kale, a student of GVM SNJA Higher Secondary School, Farmagudi, won the top position at the 20th national para-athletic championship held in Bhubaneshwar. Pasricha, a student at Naval Children School, Vasco has been selected to represent India at the Asian junior squash championship to be held at Pattaya, Thailand next month. Singh said that Goa Police will reach out to initiative of an outreach with promising youth within the state to spread an image of showcase a people-friendly force and to celebrate achievements of the younger generation.

State receives spells of rain

Navhind Times | 23 hours ago | 20-05-2022 | 02:01 am

Navhind Times

23 hours ago | 20-05-2022 | 02:01 am

Panaji: Goa received light to moderate rainfall accompanied by lightning on Thursday with no major incident reported in the last 24 hours, according to the state disaster management authority.The India Meteorological Department had issued a heavy rainfall alert at isolated places on Thursday and Friday due to presence of a trough in the lower levels passing through Karnataka and upper cyclonic circulation over north Tamil Nadu, resulting in bad weather accompanied by clouds, heavy rains and thundershowers.As per rainfall data released by the IMD on Thursday, the state on an average has received 0.6mm rainfall against the normal rains of 3.2mm in the last 24 hours. Quepem recorded the highest rainfall of 4mm followed by Sanguem 0.9mm.“All the rain gauge stations have recorded 40-50% rainfall in the last 24 hours. The rainfall distribution was scattered which will continue on Friday with heavy rains at isolated places and thereafter the rainfall intensity will reduce,” the IMD scientist Rahul M said.Fishermen are advised not to venture along and off South Maharashtra-Goa coast for next 24 hours due to squally weather conditions.

More News

Latest News