Lucknow, March 13 -- The GST Council has constituted a group of ministers (GoM) to recommend uniform policies for imposition of special cess in the case of natural disasters/calamities.

The GoM will examine the Constitutional and legal feasibility for levy of a special cess by states for revenue mobilisation in the case of natural calamity.

Uttar Pradesh minister for finance Suresh Khanna will lead the GoM as its convenor. The finance ministers of Assam, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Kerala, Uttarakhand and West Bengal are members of the GoM.

The GoM will also examine and identify the framework to be used to classify an event as a natural calamity for the purpose of levying such special cess, examine whether the special cess should be restric...