A Constitution Amendment Bill providing for roll out of the GST was on 12/05/2015 referred to a select committee after the opposition insisted on its legislative scrutiny of the proposed legislation in Rajya Sabha where the government faces the numbers crunch.

The 21 member panel will give its report by the last day of the first week of the Monsoon session.

FM moved the motion for referring the Bill to the Select Committee.

The GST Bill was approved by Lok Sabha on 6/5/2015 after a walkout by Congress. Congress floor managers in the Rajya Sabha had made it clear to the government that it will not be possible for them to back the bill in the Upper House without referring it to a Select Committee.

While AIADMK was the only party to have declared its oppositions to the economic forum measure, the Congress was adamant that it should be sent to a Select Committee for examining the changes that were brought into it by the NDA dispensation.

[ Source : Business standard, New Delhi, dated 13-5-2015]

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Constitution Amendment Bill referral to select committee secures legislative scrutiny ahead of GST enactment process A proposed Constitution Amendment Bill for rollout of the goods and services tax was referred to a Select Committee after opposition parties insisted on detailed legislative scrutiny in the Upper House where the government lacked comfortable numbers; the Select Committee of twenty one members was directed to examine the Bill and report by the end of the first week of the Monsoon session.