India, Sept. 4 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that the Union Government, along with the states, had taken a "big and significant decision", making the Goods and Services Tax (GST) more simplified.

"The GST has become more simple and easy. there are two rates left in GST- 5 and 18 per cent," PM Modi said.

The Prime Minister said that GST 2.0 is a "double dose" for the country's support and growth, adding that the "next generation GST reforms" would be implemented on September 22, the first day of Navratri.

Modi said that he had promised "a double dhamaka of happiness before this Diwali and Chhath Puja" during his speech on Independence Day.

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