The GST Regime is Damaging, Not Helping, India’s Crafts Sector

The transition to the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime was sold as a reform that would transform Indian industry for the better. Two months later, the plight of craftspeople across India tells a different story. Yograj lives and works in Kaziwala village in the district Bijnor of Uttar Pradesh. He makes small hand-made wooden items like  juda  pins which sell for about Rs 25 each. I l…