Centre, industry want petroleum products in GST ambit: Oil Minister Pradhan

The Centre and the industry favour inclusion of petroleum products in the Goods and Services Tax (GST) but the GST Council will take a final call on it, Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said today. Whatever the GST Council decides on including petroleum products within GST ambit, "we would stand by that," Pradhan said in reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha. Five petroleum pro…