Dehradun, March 9 -- The Central Government has nominated Uttarakhand Finance Minister Premchand Agarwal as a member of the Group of Ministers (GOM) constituted to impose a special disaster cess in case of natural calamities.

The GST Council has constituted a group of ministers to impose a special disaster cess in case of a natural calamity in a State. The seven-member group of ministers includes Finance Minister Suresh Kumar Khanna of Uttar Pradesh, Premchand Agarwal of Uttarakhand, Ajanta Neog of Assam, OP Choudhary from Chhattisgarh, Kanubhai Desai from Gujarat, KN Balagopal from Kerala and Chandrima Bhattacharya from West Bengal.

The group of ministers will examine the constitutional and legality of levying special cess by states to...