GST Impact in the Himalayas | Effects on Tourism, Handicrafts & Economy
The Goods & Services Tax (GST) is India’s unified indirect tax that replaced a tangle of central and state levies with a single, destination-based system. For Himalayan states—Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Jammu & Kashmir, Ladakh, and the North-East—GST touches everyday life: from hotel tariffs and homestays to shawl weavers, wood carvers, apple farmers, and small traders…