Water Cess Act Dissolves After GST Implementation

In some fruitful decisions taken by GST council to promote the tax scheme well in the society for its upbringing, there are some faults which have been captured to put a question mark on it. Several industries, local bodies and development authorities have got uninterrupted water utilisation but on the other side it has some danger associated with it.

After the implementation of GST, the water cess act 1977 has been dissolved which was earlier keeping an eye on the water resources under the usage of various civic and industry bodies. This dissolvement of act also created points of existence for State Pollution control board which were guardian authority for water resources used by the bodies. In the act of Cess levy, there was accountability of water usage by these civic bodies but with the eradication of the water cess, there will be both endangerment to the water resources as well as control boards.

The cess collected from the water scrutiny was held for the maintenance of these control boards but now the chances are dropped down for even their survival. The water cess act was formed in 1977 in order to collect eligible cess from the industrial bodies who were taking these natural resources under their ambit.

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This procurement of cess was done from various local, civic and industry bodies in which there was a certain amount to be paid to the authority. Now the GST council took decision against the nature and the resources, which will directly hit the method and would hit the environment cases more hectic for the forestry to manage accordingly.