Meghalaya CM chaired meeting on casino & online gaming

Syllad | The Rising MeghalayaMay 2, 2022

Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma, who was appointed as the Convener to lead the Group of Ministers (GoM) on Casinos, Race Course and Online Gaming on Monday held a meeting with other members and officials at North Block, Delhi.

The GoM was constituted by the Ministry of Finance, Government of India to study the GST rates for casinos, race courses and online gaming.

Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma said, “We have been able to move forward to a large extent on issues related to rates, issues related to valuation on which the rate should be applied and certain issues of online gaming were discussed in detail. Few more technical aspects need to be discussed.”

The next meeting will be held 2nd week of May.

Other members of the GoM include Ajit Pawar – Deputy CM of Maharashtra, Chandrima Bhattacharya – West Bengal’s Minister of Finance, Kanubhai Patel – Gujarat’s Minister of Finance, Mauvin Godinho – Minister of Transport and Panchayati Raj of Goa, Dr. Palanivel Thiaga Rajan – Minister of Finance of Tamil Nadu, Suresh Kumar Khanna – Minister of Finance of Uttar Pradesh, and Thanneeru Harish Rao – Minister of Finance of Telangana.

Last year, Sangma had led the GoM to study GST rates on Covid related materials.