MADURAI: The Tamil Nadu Foodgrains Merchants Association from Madurai has today welcomed the major changes of GST rates announced by Union Finance Minister Mrs.Nirmala Sitaraman by stating that the Prime Minister Mr.Narendra Modi government had given a ‘Diwali gift’ in advance for the benefit of common people, traders, manufacturers and industrialists in the country.
However, the association has made an appeal to the Finance Ministry and GST authorities to implement the rate changes from the start of a month for easy accounting purposes, and not from September 22nd 2025 as announced by the Union Finance Minister at press meet yesterday.
“Major changes were announced after the GST Council meeting held in New Delhi on September 3rd 2025. There are many welcome announcements from the GST Council meeting deliberations and our association’s several requests of traders have been met by the authorities. We particularly welcome the GST Council decision about health insurance and medicines,” Mr.S.V.S.S.Velshankar, president, Tamil Nadu Foodgrains Merchants Association, has said in a signed press statement along with honorary secretary Mr.S.Sai Subramaniam and honorary advisor Mr.S.P.Jeyapragasam from Madurai today.
The association had pointed out that some more requests are yet to be fulfilled by the GST council meeting yesterday and they appealed to the Union Finance Minister to take these demands into consideration and they were already submitted.
These demands include full exemption of GST for all types of packagings of millets, rice, dhall, flour, sugarcane and palmyrah jaggery in quantities less then 25 kgs, GST exemption for idly batter, reduction of taxation for clay bricks, reducing GST for camphor and full tax exemption for products like ‘appalams’ and all varieties of ‘vathals’ besides GST exemption for pesticides used for agriculture.
