{"id":36239,"date":"2018-11-02T11:22:25","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T05:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=36239"},"modified":"2018-11-02T11:22:25","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T05:52:25","slug":"getting-gst-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/getting-gst-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting GST right:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"font-size: 1rem;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-opinion\/getting-gst-right\/article19260834.ece\"><b>Getting GST right<\/b><\/a><b style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">:<\/b><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>A petition to get sanitary napkins free from GST bracket<\/b> <b>Context<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Online petition on March 8, requesting the Union Finance Minister to make eco-friendly sanitary pads tax-free and reduce the tax bracket of other napkins from 12-14% to 5% gets people attention.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>The appeal<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The petition found more than three lakh people support.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Union Health and the Women and Child Development Ministers also agreed that it was a worthy proposal.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Finance Minister recognized that it was a cause proposed by activists and non-governmental organizations.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Only the members of GST Council did not pay heed to such important issue.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A woman needs all means possible to help her during menstruation can only be forcefully argued by women.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Issue of Women Empowerment<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If women essentials get taxed, the rising price effect the woman workforce, school dropout\u2019s and also leads to rise in gender crimes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The petition has always been received by the government with sensitivity, and have drawn reassurances.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The right to equality is not an easy right to ensure and enforce, somehow.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>India needs to update<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India is still a country where many women are still dependent on cloth-based products as they cannot access high quality, expensive personal hygiene products.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lack of sufficient information about sanitary pads is still present in rural areas.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Women even now has to use hay, ash, sand, wood shavings, newspaper, dried leaves, or even plastic as a substitute for a hygiene product, despite subsidized napkins being distributed under the National Rural Health Mission (NHRM) in many States.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In India, 70% of women still claims that their families cannot afford to buy sanitary pads.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting GST right: A petition to get sanitary napkins free from GST bracket Context Online petition on March 8, requesting the Union Finance Minister to make eco-friendly sanitary pads tax-free and reduce the tax bracket of other napkins from 12-14% to 5% gets people attention. The appeal The petition found more than three lakh people&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/getting-gst-right\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Getting GST right:<\/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-36239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704915024},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36239","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=36239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}