The Constitution Amendment Bill providing for the roll-out of the long-pending Goods and Services Tax (GST) was on Tuesday referred to a 21-member Select Committee after the Opposition forced the Government to do so in the Rajya Sabha where the Modi dispensation lacks majority.
The panel will give its report in first week of Monsoon Session.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley moved the motion for referring the Bill (The Constitution One Hundred and Twenty-second Amendment Bill, 2014) to the Select Committee.
The GST was referred to a Select Committee after the opposition opposed the Government in the Rajya Sabha.
The Committee constitutes of Bhupender Yadav, Chandan Mitra and Ajay Sancheti (BJP), Madhusudan Mistry, Mani Shankar Aiyar and Bhalchandra Mungekar (Congress), Naresh Agrawal (SP), K C Tyagi (JD(U)), Derek O'Brien (Trinamool Congress), Satish Chandra Misra (BSP), A Navaneethakrishnan (AIADMK), KN Balagopal (CPM), Dilip Kumar Tirkey (BJD), CM Ramesh (TDP), Praful Patel (NCP), Kanimozhi (DMK), Anil Desai (Shiv Sena), Naresh Gujral (SAD), Mohammad Fayaz (PDP),
D Raja (CPI), Rajeev Chandrasekhar (Independent).