GST bill goes to Rajya Sabha select committee

New Delhi, May 12: The bill on the goods and services tax (GST) was on Tuesday sent to a select committee of the Rajya Sabha. The committee will table its report in the upper house on the last day of the first week of next parliament session. The 21-member committee is headed by Bhupender Yadav of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Other members of the committee are: Chandan Mitra and Ajay Sancheti (BJP), Madhusudan Mistry, Bhalchandra Mungekar and Mani Shankar Aiyar (Congress), K.C. Tyagi (JD-U), Derek O'Brien (Trinamool Congress), A. Navaneethakrishnan (AIADMK), Satish Chandra Misra (BSP), K.N. Balagopal (CPI-M), Dilip Kumar Tirkey (BJD), C.M. Ramesh (TDP), Praful Patel (NCP), Kanimozhi (DMK), Anil Desai (Shiv Sena), Naresh Gujral (Shiromani Akali Dal), Mir Mohammad Fayaz (PDP), D. Raja (CPI) and Independent MP Rajeev Chandrasekhar. The GST bill is seen as the key to facilitating industrial growth and improving the country's business climate.