GST has divided Surat: While textile languishes, diamond trade unaffected

Vikash Patil’s siesta inside his mini-cargo truck, parked outside Surat's Vankar Textile Market, comes to an end when his colleague Anwar Khan returns from a wholesaler’s office. All the paperwork has been done and the duo will now have to transport the goods in the truck — bundles of clothes — to a bigger vehicle some distance away. From there, the clothes and others from across  Surat will…