{"id":35760,"date":"2018-11-01T11:40:42","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T06:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=35760"},"modified":"2018-11-01T11:40:42","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T06:10:42","slug":"gst-ties-bengals-traditional-weavers-in-knots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/gst-ties-bengals-traditional-weavers-in-knots\/","title":{"rendered":"GST ties Bengal\u2019s traditional weavers in knots:\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/situation-grim-for-bengal-sari-weavers-after-gst\/article19447844.ece\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">GST ties Bengal\u2019s traditional weavers in knots<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The weavers in Bengal are facing severe inconveniences due to the confusion surrounding GST.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Explanation:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the confusion on whether GST would be levied on their <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tannt<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> saris, business for weavers in Bengal has almost stopped over the past month. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, five per cent GST has been imposed on cotton and yarn, raw materials for <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Taant <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">saris.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>The plight of the weavers:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They couldn\u2019t buy yarn without going through the complicated billing process under GST.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If such a situation continues then they would have no option but to shut down my business<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moreover, the weavers are totally clueless about the fact that whether there is any GST on <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Taant <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">saris as well as the process of billing under GST.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Under such circumstances, it had become extremely difficult for them to sell the saris at wholesale markets as well as to buyers from Bihar and Odisha as they were asking for bills prepared as per GST norms.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GST ties Bengal\u2019s traditional weavers in knots:\u00a0 Context: The weavers in Bengal are facing severe inconveniences due to the confusion surrounding GST. Explanation: With the confusion on whether GST would be levied on their Tannt saris, business for weavers in Bengal has almost stopped over the past month. However, five per cent GST has been&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/gst-ties-bengals-traditional-weavers-in-knots\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GST ties Bengal\u2019s traditional weavers in knots:\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704856811},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}