Opposition Congress in Kerala today urged Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to withdraw immediately the GST on fishing equipments as it was causing immense hardships to the fishermen. After demonetisation, the fishermen had to face lot of hardships. Now after GST rollout, the taxes for various fishing equipments, including nets, had gone up steeply, he said. Of the total global fish stock, 5.4 per cent is in India and about 2 crore people in the country are depended on the fisheries sector, he said. (This article has not been edited by DNA's editorial team and is auto-generated from an agency feed.)

Source: dna August 11, 2017 14:15 UTC