{"id":16088,"date":"2016-09-29T11:36:25","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T11:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=16088"},"modified":"2016-09-29T11:36:25","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T11:36:25","slug":"arun-goyal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/arun-goyal\/","title":{"rendered":"Arun Goyal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Who has been appointed as Additional Secretary in the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Arun Goyal<br \/>\n(b) Amit Mitra<br \/>\n(c) Arun Khandelwal<br \/>\n(d) None of These<br \/>\n<strong>Ans: (a)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 24 September 2016 Senior IAS officer Arun Goyal has been appointed as Additional Secretary in the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Council will be headed by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, is mandated to decide on tax rate, exempted goods and the threshold limit.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Appointments Committee of Cabinet has approved Goyal\u2019s appointment against the newly created post, an order issued by the Department of Personnel and Training.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Goyal, a 1985 batch IAS officer of Union Territory cadre, is at present working as Additional Secretary, Project Monitoring Group, Cabinet Secretariat.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Union Cabinet had recently approved appointment of the Secretary (Revenue) as the ex-officio Secretary to the GST Council and inclusion of the chairperson, Central Board of Excise and Customs, as a permanent invitee.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/indiatoday.intoday.in\/story\/arun-goyal-appointed-addl-secretary-gst-council\/1\/772286.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/indiatoday.intoday.in\/story\/arun-goyal-appointed-addl-secretary-gst-council\/1\/772286.html<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/politics-and-nation\/arun-goyal-appointed-additional-secretary-gst-council\/articleshow\/54495555.cms\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/politics-and-nation\/arun-goyal-appointed-additional-secretary-gst-council\/articleshow\/54495555.cms<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Who has been appointed as Additional Secretary in the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council? (a) Arun Goyal (b) Amit Mitra (c) Arun Khandelwal (d) None of These Ans: (a) Related facts: On 24 September 2016 Senior IAS officer Arun Goyal has been appointed as Additional Secretary in the Goods and Services Tax (GST) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1127],"tags":[2348],"class_list":["post-16088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pers","tag-personalities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}