NEW DELHI: Oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Thursday hoped that finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman will in her Budget set the tone for bringng jet fuel and natural gas under the GST regime to reduce multiplicity of taxes and improve the business climate.
“Our expectation is that in the coming Budget, ATF and natural gas is included in GST,” Pradhan said at a conference on natural gas organsied by industry chamber Ficci here. On a day Delhi’s air quality pust focus back on pollution in cities, Pradhan said bringing clean-burning natural gas under GST will be one of the biggest drivers of not just consumption but will also incentivize producers to spend more on finding and producing more gas as well as incentivise importers to bring in more LNG.
In the same vein, Pradhan at another function later in the day rode in a hydrogen fuel-driven car developed by Toyota-Kirloskar. Here too he asked industry to focus on finding alternative fuels and mobility solutions.
