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Tobacco growers' plea for relief

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI FEB. 25. Tobacco Growers Welfare Association today urged the Centre and the Opposition to solve the plight of the growers who were reeling under the impact of several factors, including taxation.

In a memorandum to the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee and the Leader of the Opposition, in the Lok Sabha, Sonia Gandhi, the delegation urged that the tobacco board should play a leading role in promoting Indian tobacco exports, moderate taxes on cigarettes and remove 15 per cent national calamity contingency duty.

The also urged that the States must be dissuaded from levying these taxes as well as VAT on cigarettes, a product which attracts additional excise duty.

The delegation also sought that the provisions of the cigarettes and other tobacco products bill should be reviews so as to enact legislation that "is practical, non-discriminatory and implementable''.

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