After Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi offering suggestions to tackle COVID-19, Union Minister of State (MoS) for Finance and Corporate Affairs Anurag Thakur on Sunday gave point wise responses elaborating measures taken by the Centre and rectifying some of the misconceptions in the letter. Thakur posted Kharge s letter to PM Modi on his Twitter handle and said on government supplies, GST is also paid by the government. From GST collected on the vaccine, half is earned by the Centre and another half by the States. 41 per cent of Centre s collections also get devolved to the States. States end up receiving almost 70 per cent of the total revenue collected from vaccines, he explained.
Union Minister of State for Finance and Corporate Affairs Anurag Thakur (File photo)
Anurag Thakur rectifies misconceptions in Kharge s letter to PM, says states get 70 pc of vaccine revenue ANI | Updated: May 10, 2021 00:56 IST
New Delhi [India], May 10 (ANI): After Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi offering suggestions to tackle COVID-19, Union Minister of State (MoS) for Finance and Corporate Affairs Anurag Thakur on Sunday gave point wise responses elaborating measures taken by the Centre and rectifying some of the misconceptions in the letter.
Thakur posted Kharge s letter to PM Modi on his Twitter handle and said on government supplies, GST is also paid by the government. From GST collected on the vaccine, half is earned by the Centre and another half by the States. 41 per cent of Centre s collections also get devolved to the States. States end up receiving almost 70 per cent of the total rev
ISSUE DATE: May 3, 2021
UPDATED: April 27, 2021 21:17 IST
Migrant workers arriving from Maharashtra rest outside Patna junction railway station, Aoril 10, 2021
For over a fortnight now, 24-year-old Chander Kumar from Bihar’s Bahadurpur village has been living with a sense of déjà vu in his one-room shack in Delhi’s Chhatarpur area. His smartphone has been flashing constant updates on Covid-19 cases in the national capital where he works as a domestic help. He is in two minds, and despite chief minister Arvind Kejriwal requesting them not to leave the city, Kumar and his friends are worried about the week-long lockdown announced on April 20 in the national capital.
ISSUE DATE: May 3, 2021
UPDATED: April 24, 2021 12:57 IST
Migrant workers arriving from Maharashtra rest outside Patna junction railway station, Aoril 10, 2021
For over a fortnight now, 24-year-old Chander Kumar from Bihar’s Bahadurpur village has been living with a sense of déjà vu in his one-room shack in Delhi’s Chhatarpur area. His smartphone has been flashing constant updates on Covid-19 cases in the national capital where he works as a domestic help. He is in two minds, and despite chief minister Arvind Kejriwal requesting them not to leave the city, Kumar and his friends are worried about the week-long lockdown announced on April 20 in the national capital.
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