Budget 2019: Gems & Jewellery sector wishlist; rationalise GST, step up tax vigil

Budget 2019: As the countdown for the presentation of the Union Budget for 2019-20 begins, the conversation on the economy is slowly converging to a singular theme - the need to kick-start the economic growth engine which has lost its steam towards the fag end of the foregone fiscal. That the consensus is that the growth should be accompanied by jobs, that there is an urgent need to translate the…