Punjab among states with highest revenue shortfall under GST

The Congress government in Punjab was gung-ho about the goods and services tax (GST), with both chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh and finance minister Manpreet Singh Badal calling it a “game changer” for the fund-crunched state when it was rolled out in July last year. But GST has been anything but that so far. Punjab is among the states with maximum shortfall in revenue collection under GST in…