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Windfall tax records will be reviewed every fortnight India is facing difficulty in getting crude oil from abroad at an affordable price Rs 23,250 per tonne tax was levied on crude oil produced domestically

Agriculture and allied sectors have been the least impacted by the pandemic and the sector is expected to grow by 3.9 per cent in 2021-22 The Survey states that the services sector has been the hardest hit by the pandemic, especially segments that involve human contact This sector is estimated to grow by 8.2 per cent this financial year following last year`s 8.4 per cent contraction

Nirmala Sitharaman will chair the 46th meeting of the GST Council in New Delhi today Union MoS in the Ministry of Finance, Pankaj Chaudhary and Dr Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad will also attend the meeting

Sitharaman said the ministry has started doing some assessment since the beginning of October and would soon come with a projection "We have only now started doing some kind of an assessment. We waited for the commencement of the second half, which has just started" She added, "we have got a lot of inputs which are very different from what we had in July. And ideally, it should be so"