40% tax on bidi raised during the meeting held at Chandigarh PGI.
The country’s leading health experts, researchers and senior officials of national medical institutions said that tobacco is increasing serious diseases and deaths. He has demanded to increase the tax on bidi by 40 percent.
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On this subject, PGI Chandigarh’s Tobacco Control Resource Center and Wet Straitzes organized a national webinar on “Tax role in stopping the direction of tobacco -free India”.
Experts from 10 national institutions including AIIMS, NICPR, ICMR, NIOH and NIIR-NCD participated in it.
Tobacco should increase tax Director of RCTC Prof. Sonu Goyal said that tax on tobacco should increase so that people do not take it because it is causing very serious diseases. The Government of India has made major improvements in tobacco taxation.
He made it clear that it is very important to bring out the truth between rumors and misleading information spread in the media, especially about reducing tax on bidi.
Director of RCTC Prof. Sonu Goyal.
The most effective control strategy to increase tax on tobacco Dr. L., Deputy Director General of the Ministry of Health. Swagcharan said that taxation is the most affordable strategy for prevention of non-communicable diseases and tobacco control. At the same time, Dr. P.C. Gupta (Director, Helice-Seksaria Institute, Mumbai) said that the step will not be available till all the tobacco products are uniform tax.
Dr. Rana J. Singh (Vital Straitzes), while referring to Article 6 of the WHO-FCCC, said that increasing tax on tobacco is the most effective control strategy. For this, a policy based on strong evidence and full participation of all responsible people is necessary.
Reduce tax on bidi harmful In the technical session, Dr. Upendra Bhojani stated the history of tobacco taxation in India, while Dr. Rizo John quoted the research as saying that under the recent proposal, it would be extremely dangerous to reduce tax on beedi from 28% to 18%, as bidi is consumed in poor and lower classes.
PGI Chandigarh.
Everyone unanimous on increasing tax In the panel discussion Prof. Saurabh Varshneya, Prof. Ashutosh Biswas, Prof. Many experts including Meenu Singh, Dr. Madhbanand Kar, Dr. Bhavna Modi, Dr. Shalini Singh and Dr. Pankaj Bhardwaj attended. Everyone unanimously stated that tobacco taxation should not only be seen as a means of increasing revenue, but as public health intervention.
