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According to officials, amendments would be brought to the Panchayat and Municipality Rules for the purpose.
Thiruvananthapuram: The state government has no plans to exclude all essential commodities being sold from the ambit of taxes and that only small-scale entities and women self-help group Kudumbashree are exempted from being levied the GST, Finance Minister K N Balagopal clarified on Thursday. When
The State of Kerala has entrusted Kudumbasree, the neighbourhood community organisation, with the work of flag making as they have more than 4,000 tailoring units in the State.
Finance Minister K N Balagopal said the state government has already written to the Centre regarding its stand.
Meanwhile, around 900 employers have been registered so far. The authorities are trying to increase the number of employers in order to create at least 2,000 job opportunities per day.
Each unit would have an Excise official among the members.
Incidentally, 37.14 lakh people have registered at the employment exchanges in Kerala. However, the age limit at the exchanges is 40 years.
Operated by Kudumbashree workers, the Kerala meal includes dishes such as ‘sambar’, ‘thoran’, pickles, fried chillis, curd and ‘rasam’ along with boiled rice.
Action was taken after traces of Aflatoxin B1, a toxin that could even cause liver cancer, were found in the product manufactured at the Edakkattuvayal unit.
Local Administration Minister M V Govindan said that the number of Haritha Karma Sena members would be increased to facilitate smooth waste collection in all local body wards.