Gujarat: Inspired by the Narendra Modi government's ''Goods & Services Tax'', a family in Gujarat has named its three newborn daughters after the newly implemented law, which was billed as India's biggest tax reform since Independence.
According to ANI, the family which resides in Surat, named its three three newborn daughters - Garavi, Sanchi and Taravi - after initials of the ''Goods & Services Tax''.
PM Narendra Bhai Modi had brought in GST - One Tax-One Nation, we were inspired by it and named our daughters after it, Kanchan Patel, the mother said.
Gujarat: A family in Surat names their three new born daughters after initials of Goods & Services Tax, call them Garavi, Sanchi and Taravi pic.twitter.com/gJGyqAHJr6
— ANI (@ANI) September 11, 2017
The Goods and Services Tax (GST) - India's biggest tax reform since Independence - was implemented in the midnight on July 1 this year during a mega ceremony in the precincts of the hallowed Central Hall of Parliament.
A minute after the stroke of midnight, President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi pressed the button to launch the new indirect tax regime on a digital screen with "GST" emblazoned on it in a golden hue.
Conceived on the principle of 'one nation, one tax, one market', the tax that subsumes 17 central and state levies was launched in the presence of Vice President Hamid Ansari, former Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda, Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, MPs, chief ministers, state finance ministers, officials of the Centre and states.
