Vyapar mandal president demands better facilities for trade, industries

The state president of Haryana Pradesh Vyapar Mandal and former chairman of Haryana Confed, Bajrang Garg, has urged the state government to provide better facilities to promote trade and industries in the state.

Addressing a press conference in Bhiwani on Sunday, Garg said the state had been lagging in trade and industrialisation due to the lackadaisical approach of the state government towards its demands and requirements. He said the unreasonable hike in taxes by the Central Government under GST in the country and Haryana had been one of the major turn offs for the industries in the state.

Garg stated ever since the Independence, there was never any tax on cloth, sugar, milk, curd, lassi, fertiliser, etc. He said, however, the Central Government had increased inflation by imposing five per cent GST on cloth, sugar, milk, curd. Garg said earlier there was five percent VAT tax on goods of common need, but this government had imposed 18 and 28 per cent GST on goods of basic necessities of people, which was an anti-trader decision.

The trader leader said the government should reduce the rates of taxes so as to promote trade and industries in Haryana. The lower the tax rates would help in controlling the inflation and trade and industry would grow in the state. On this occasion, general secretary of Vyapar Mandal Pawan Buwaniwala, Vijay Goya, Naresh Garg, Pradeep Garg, Ratan Agarwal, Sanjay Agarwal, Mukesh Mittal, Ajay Goyal, Ajay Agarwal etc., were present.