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The Andhra Pradesh Cabinet today approved the Goods and Services Tax Bill during a meeting held at Vijayawada and plans to take it up at the forthcoming assembly session for its approval.
The Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu discussed various implications of the Bill on the State and finally put its stamp of approval.
The AP state legislative assembly has been convened on August 8 to take up the Bill for passage. The brief session, details of which will be finalised at the Business Advisory Committee of the Assembly in September 8, will take up the Constitution Amendment Bill on Goods and Services Tax. The GST amendment has already secured approvals from several states.
The State was initially planning to hold the session at the new capital city of Amaravati. However, with infrastructure yet to be fully ready to host the Assembly session, it was decided to convene it Hyderabad. The Government had to decide to hold the meet in September itself as the Centre had called upon the State to approve the amendment so that it could be taken at the earliest in Parliament for approval.
If the plans go as per Government decision, this could be the last assembly meet of AP in Hyderabad. From now on it is proposed to shift the venue to Amaravati.
Telangana had recently unanimously approved the GST Bill.
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