Qualification relaxation for Technical Member: service and rank requirements eased, enabling joint commissioners with requisite service to be eligible. The Government relaxes qualifications for appointment as Technical Member (State) in the State Benches of the GST Appellate Tribunal by allowing an officer of the Commercial Taxes Department of Jharkhand with at least twenty-five years' Government service as a Gazetted Officer to meet the service requirement and lowering the minimum qualifying rank from Additional Commissioner to Joint Commissioner of State Tax; the relaxation is effective from Gazette publication, valid for ten years, and subject to other statutory eligibility conditions.