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Tuesday, January 1, 2019

Uttar Pradesh Govt led by BJP's Yogi Adityanath imposes cess on excise duty for cow shelters

Uttar Pradesh to levy cow welfare cess for setting up temporary shelters for stray cattle


Facing flak over stray damaging and causing road accidents, the government on Tuesday Jan 01,2019 announced a new policy for temporary cow shelters in the urban and rural areas of Uttar Pradesh.

Following a ban on illegal trade and abattoirs after the government came to power in March 2017, the number of stray has multiplied in UP. These abandoned animals not only cause extensive damage to but as well, which have claimed lives and injured many.

Recently, hundreds of stray cows were locked inside a government school in Aligarh district by irate farmers, who claimed these animals were destroying their crops

Now under the new policy for financing the construction and running of cow shelters, the state government has imposed a 2% cess on excise duty, apart from 0.5% cess on state-operated tolls.
Meanwhile, the 1% levy on the tax revenue of the UP agricultural marketing board or Mandi Parishad, which goes to the state panchayat bodies, has also been hiked to 2% for mopping up more financial resources towards the proposed cow sheldter infrastructure
Besides, 8 state public sector undertakings, including (Bridge Corporation) and (UPSIDC) will contribute 0.5% towards the scheme from their (CSR) kitty. These decisions were taken at a cabinet meeting chaired by chief minister

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