The Pune Cantonment Board (PCB) sent a delegation of elected members to Mumbai to meet Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday. The mission behind this meeting was to urge the Chief Minister to help the Board by offering them a share in the collection of the Goods and Services Tax. They expressed their view in the form of representation. One of the representatives told that the meeting was successful and ended on a positive note.
“The outcome of the meeting was positive. The chief minister has assured us that he will do the needful. We hope the state will release a GST share to the board in the coming weeks,” said Priyanka Shrigiri, the cantonment board’s vice-president.
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The Delegated committee consists of Members like the Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Kakade, Punjab Central Bank CEO, DN Yadav etc. It was the last week when a Board of Members led by Sanjay Kakade met the Union finance minister Arun Jaitley for the same motive and urged for a share in the GST collection from the centre. There they were advised by the Finance Minister to get in an approach of the state government for the fulfilment of the motive.
Yadav said, “We apprised the CM about the board’s current financial status and how the same was affecting development projects.”
“Ever since the GST implementation from July 2017, the state government has not disbursed any share to the seven cantonment boards in Maharashtra. The Pune cantonment contributes the most i.e. Rs 1,200 crore as annual GST and it is for the government to provide a share to the PCB for furthering development projects,” a senior Defence General Defence Estates official told TOI on Wednesday.
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“If the PCB does not get the share, it will run out of funds and will not be able to pay even the salaries from March,” another official said.
