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Further, such a move will hamper developmental activities as State is already facing financial crunch due to limited states own resources. To justify his view, DCM informed the august house that Arunachal Pradesh is geographically a big State but sparsely populated and it’s challenging to reach out to the remote parts of the State for any developmental works without states own resources as central fund is meant for specific schemes or projects and therefore State humbly requests to maintain status quo on ENA. Most of the States were of the view that taxation of ENA be left out to the States. House unanimously agreed to maintain the status quo for the time being.
The 43rd edition of GST Council also deliberated on many other issues including grant of compensation cess to the States. The marathon meeting which started at 11.00 AM ended after 8.00 PM this evening.