Telangana Congress demands Exempt textile sector from GST

Hyderabad, July 01: The Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee has demanded that the Central government take steps to exempt the textile industry from the purview of the Goods and Services Tax regime.

TPCC president N. Uttam Kumar Reddy said that the textile industry was considered a business that was helping the common man.

More than 20 lakh small and medium textile traders were connected with the trade in Telangana while an equal number of people were indirectly dependent on the industry.

The TPCC chief was interacting with the media after a delegation of representatives of the textile trade, including Hyderabad Cut Piece Cloth Merchants Association, Hyderabad Cloth Merchants Association, and others, called on him at Gandhi Bhavan and explained the hardships they would face after the new GST comes into effect.