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Activists demand withdrawal of GST on sanitary napkins
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....ctivists demand withdrawal of GST on sanitary napkins <br>GST<br>Dated:- 11-7-2017<br><BR>New Delhi, Jul 11 (PTI) Scores of activists today posted sanitary napkins to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley'....
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....;s office demanding immediate withdrawal of GST on the women's hygiene product, following a video on the issue that went viral on social media. Scores of SFI and All India Democratic Womens' ....
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....Association (AIDWA) activists sent the napkins with the text "Bleedwithoutfear" written on them. In the video that was widely circulated on social media, Delhi University student and SFI ac....
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....tivist Anuradha Kumari had yesterday urged women across the country to post sanitary pads to the Union minister's office to fight against "unjust" taxation on sanitary pads. "If co....
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....ndoms and contraceptives are made tax-free, why not sanitary pads?" she had asked in the minute-long video. Sanitary napkins will attract Goods and Services Tax (GST) rate of 12 per cent, a shad....
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....e lower than 13.7 per cent in the previous indirect tax regime. "Sanitary pads are considered as luxury items and taxed accordingly, when the reality is that these are necessities of a woman for....
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.... a healthy life. Inflated prices will discourage poor women and girls from using pads," said Vikas Bhadauria, president of Students Federation of India (Delhi).<BR> News - Press release - PIB....