GST Council Members, Goods and Services Tax Council is a constitutional body under Article 279A(1), headed by the Union Finance Minister and has the Union Minister of State for Finance and the Finance Ministers or any other ministers appointed from the state governments as members.
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Who can be a member of the GST Council?
As per new article 279A, The President shall, within sixty days from the date of commencement of the Constitution (One Hundred and First Amendment) Act, 2016, by order, constitute a Council to be called the Goods and Services Tax Council.
The Goods and Services Tax Council shall consist of the following members,
(a) the Union Finance Minister as Chairperson
(b) the Union Minister of State in charge of Revenue or
Finance as Members
(c) the Minister in charge of Finance or Taxation or any other Minister
nominated by each State Government as Members.
The Members of the Goods and Services Tax Council shall, as soon as may be, choose one amongst themselves to be the Vice-Chairperson of the Council for such period as they may decide.
Who are the members of the GST Council?
The GST Council is the governing body of GST (Goods and Services Tax) having 33 members, out of which 2 members are from the center and 31 members are from 28 states and 3 Union territories with legislation.
GST Council is an apex member committee to modify, reconcile, or procure any law or regulation based on the context of goods and services tax in India.
How many members are in the GST Council at present?
The Goods and Services Tax Council has 33 members, out of which 2 members are from the center and 31 members are from 28 states and 3 Union territories with legislation.
List of GST Council members updated (2023-24)
Here is the list of all GST council members and
| S. No. | Government | Member of GST Council |
| 1 | Govt. of India | Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman |
| 2 | Govt. of India | Shri Pankaj Chaudhary |
| 3 | Andhra Pradesh | Shri Buggana Rajendranath |
| 4 | Arunachal Pradesh | Shri Chowna Mein |
| 5 | Assam | Smt. Ajanta Neog |
| 6 | Bihar | Shree Vijay Kumar Chaudhary |
| 7 | Chhattisgarh | Shri T.S Singh Deo |
| 8 | Delhi | Shri Kailash Gahlot |
| 9 | Goa | Shri Mauvin Godinho |
| 10 | Gujarat | Shri Kanubhai Desai |
| 11 | Haryana | Shri Dushyant Chautala |
| 12 | Himachal Pradesh | Shri Jai Ram Thakur |
| 13 | UT of Jammu & Kashmir | Shri Rajeev Rai Bhatnagar |
| 14 | Jharkhand | Dr. Rameshwar Oraon |
| 15 | Karnataka | Shri Krishna Byre Gowda |
| 16 | Kerala | Shri K N Balagopal |
| 17 | Madhya Pradesh | Shri Jagdish Devda |
| 18 | Maharashtra | Shri Ajit Pawar |
| 19 | Manipur | Dr. Sapam Ranjan Singh |
| 20 | Meghalaya | Shri Abu Taher Mondal |
| 21 | Mizoram | Shri Lalchamliana |
| 22 | Nagaland | Shri K.G Kenye |
| 23 | Odisha | Shri Bikram Keshari Arukha |
| 24 | Puducherry | Shri K. Lakshminarayanan |
| 25 | Punjab | Shri Harpal Singh Cheema |
| 26 | Rajasthan | Shri Shanti Kumar Dhariwal |
| 27 | Sikkim | Shri B. S. Panth |
| 28 | Tamil Nadu | Shri Thiru Thangam Thennarasu |
| 29 | Telangana | Shri T.Harish Rao |
| 30 | Tripura | Shri Jishnu Dev Varma |
| 31 | Uttar Pradesh | Shri Suresh Kumar Khanna |
| 32 | Uttarakhand | Shri Premchand Aggarwal |
| 33 | West Bengal | Smt. Chandrima Bhattacharya |
List of GST Council members in Details Updated
Yes, the list of 33 GST Council members is available below-
1. Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman
Government– Govt of India
Portfolio– Union Finance Minister
Smt.Nirmala Sitharaman is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party, who is currently serving as the Minister of Finance and Minister of Corporate Affairs. She is a member of the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament, since 2014.
2. Shri Pankaj Choudhary
Government– Govt of India
Portfolio– Union Minister of State (Finance)
Pankaj Choudhary is an Indian politician and member of the 10th, 11th, 12th, 14th, 16th, and 17th Loksabha from Maharajganj in Uttar Pradesh of India as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He became Minister of State of Finance in the Second Modi Ministry after the Cabinet reshuffle.
3. Shri Buggana Rajendranath
Government– Andhra Pradesh
Portfolio– Minister of Finance
Shri Buggana Rajendranath Reddy is an Indian politician and current Minister for Finance, Planning, and Legislative Affairs in the Government of Andhra Pradesh.
4. Shri Chowna Mein
Government– Arunachal Pradesh
Portfolio– Deputy Chief Minister
Chowna Mein is an Indian politician from Arunachal Pradesh. He belongs to the Bharatiya Janata Party. Previously he was a member of the Indian National Congress. Currently, he is the Deputy-Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh since July 2016 under Pema Khandu.
5. Smt. Ajanta Neog
Government– Assam
Portfolio– Finance Minister
Ajanta Neog is an Indian politician who is currently the Finance and Social Welfare Minister in the Government of Assam. She is the first woman Finance Minister of Assam. She has been representing the Golaghat Assembly seat consecutively for the past five terms since 2001. She also holds the record for being the longest-serving female legislator from Assam.
6. Shree Vijay Kumar Chaudhary
Government– Bihar
Portfolio– Finance Minister and Commercial Taxes Minister
Vijay Kumar Chaudhary is an Indian politician. He has been a member of the Bihar Legislative Assembly since 1982 and is currently serving as the Cabinet Minister for Finance, Commercial Taxes, and Parliamentary Affairs ministries in the Government of Bihar.
7. Shri T. S. Singh Deo
Government– Chhattisgarh
Portfolio– Minister for Commercial Taxes
Tribhuvaneshwar Saran Singh Deo or T. S. Singh Deo is an Indian politician from Chhattisgarh. He is the current Health Minister of Chhattisgarh. He is also the current titular Maharaja of Surguja, with headquarters at Ambikapur, also known as Mordern Day Maharaja.
8. Shri Kailash Gahlot
Government– Delhi
Portfolio– Law, Justice and Legislative Affairs, Transport, Administrative Reforms, IT, Revenue, Finance, Planning, Home and all other Department not specifically allotted to any Minister
Kailash Gahlot is the Transport & Environment minister of Delhi and a member of the Sixth Legislative Assembly of Delhi in India.
9. Shri Mauvin Godinho
Government– Goa
Portfolio– Minister for Transport and Panchayat Raj, Housing, Protocol and Legislative Affairs
Mauvin Godinho is an Indian Politician from the state of Goa. He is a five-term member of the Goa Legislative Assembly
10. Shri Kanubhai Desai
Government– Gujarat
Portfolio– Minister of Finance
Kanubhai Mohanlal Desai is an Indian politician associated with Bharatiya Janata Party. He is a member of the Gujarat Legislative Assembly representing the Pardi constituency. He is the current Minister of Finance, and Minister of Energy, Government of Gujarat since 16 September 2021
11. Shri Dushyant Chautala
Government– Haryana
Portfolio– Deputy Chief Minister
Dushyant Singh Chautala (born on 3 April 1988) is a Jannayak Janta Party politician and current Deputy Chief Minister of Haryana. He is the president and co-founder of the Jannayak Janata Party.
12. Shri Jai Ram Thakur
Government– Himachal Pradesh
Portfolio– Hon’ble Chief Minister, Himachal Pradesh/Member of GST Council
Jai Ram Thakur is an Indian politician, who currently serves as the Chief Minister of the state of Himachal Pradesh in India. He is a 5th time MLA in the Himachal Pradesh Assembly winning continuously since 1998 and has previously served as a Cabinet Minister in the BJP Government of Himachal Pradesh.
13. Shri Rajeev Rai Bhatnagar
Government– UT of Jammu & Kashmir
Portfolio– Advisor to Lieutenant Governor
Senior IPS officer Rajiv Rai Bhatnagar, who recently retired as the CRPF DG, has been appointed as an advisor to the Lt Governor of Jammu-Kashmir, an official spokesperson for the Union Territory said on Sunday. Bhatnagar is a 1983-batch officer of the Uttar Pradesh cadre.
14. Dr. Rameshwar Oraon
Government– Jharkhand
Portfolio– Minister for Planning cum Finance, Commercial Taxes and Food, Public Distribution, and Consumer Affairs
Dr. Rameshwar Oraon (born 14 February 1947) is an Indian politician, who is the current Finance Minister of Jharkhand. He was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha. He represented the Lohardaga constituency of Jharkhand and is a member of the Indian National Congress (INC) political party.
15. Shri Krishna Byre Gowda
Government– Karnataka
Portfolio– Minister for Revenue Department
Krishna Byre Gowda (born 4 April 1973) is an Indian politician from Karnataka. He is currently serving as Minister of Revenue in the Government of Karnataka and as a member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly representing Byatarayanapura.
16. Shri K N Balagopal
Government– Kerala
Portfolio– Finance Minister
Kalanjoor Narayana Panicker Balagopal (born 28 July 1963) is an Indian Politician belonging to the Communist Party of India (Marxist), who is serving as the Minister for Finance.
17. Shri Jagdish Devda
Government– Madhya Pradesh
Portfolio– Minister of Finance
Jagdish Devda is a cabinet minister in the Madhya Pradesh state government and was a member of the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly representing the Malhargadh constituency of Mandsaur eight times.
18. Shri Ajit Pawar
Government– Maharashtra
Portfolio– Deputy Chief Minister
Ajit Pawar (Popularly Known as Shri Ajit Dada; born on 22 July 1959) is an Indian politician who has served as, alongside Devendra Fadnavis, the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra from 2 July 2023.
19. Dr. Sapam Ranjan Singh
Government– Manipur
Portfolio– Minister For Medical, Health & Family Welfare Department and Publicity & Information Department
20. Shri Abu Taher Mondal
Government– Meghalaya
Portfolio– Cabinet Minister, Community & Rural Development, Power Department, Taxation Department
Abu Taher Mondal (Bengali: আবু তাহের মণ্ডল) is an Indian Bengali politician, social worker and retired civil engineer. He is a four-time MLA of the Phulbari constituency in the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly.
21. Shri Lalchamliana
Government– Mizoram
Portfolio– Minister, Home & Taxation Department
Lalchamliana is a Mizo National Front politician from Mizoram. He is the current home minister of Mizoram.
22. Shri K.G Kenye
Government– Nagaland
Portfolio– Minister of Finance
K. G. Kenye is an Indian Politician from Nagaland. He belongs to the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party. He is currently serving as Cabinet minister in the Government of Nagaland and a member of the Nagaland Legislative Assembly representing Chizami.
23. Shri Bikram Keshari Arukha
Government– Odisha
Portfolio– Minister of Finance
Bikram Keshari Arukha is an Indian politician and Member of Odisha Legislative Assembly from Bhanjanagar Assembly constituency who has served as Speaker of Odisha Legislative Assembly till 2023.
24. Shri K. Lakshminarayanan
Government– Puducherry
Portfolio-Hon’ble Public Works Minister
K. Lakshminarayanan is an Indian politician from the All India NR Congress. He was elected from the Raj Bhavan in the Puducherry Legislative Assembly election in 2016 as a member of the Indian National Congress.
25. Shri Harpal Singh Cheema
Government– Punjab
Portfolio– Finance Minister
Harpal Singh Cheema is an Aam Aadmi Party MLA from the Dirba Assembly constituency located in Sangrur District, Punjab. In March 2022, he became the first Dalit to be a finance minister of Punjab.
26. Shri Shanti Kumar Dhariwal
Government– Rajasthan
Portfolio– Minister for Local Self Government, Urban Development & Housing, Law & Legal Affairs, and Parliamentary Affairs
Shanti Kumar Dhariwal is an Indian politician and a cabinet minister in the current Rajasthan government. He is an elected MLA from the North Kota Vidhan Sabha constituency of the present 15th Rajasthan Legislative Assembly. He is the Minister of Urban Development and Housing in the Ashok Gehlot Government of the state.
27. Shri Bedu Singh Panth
Government– Sikkim
Portfolio– Minister of Tourism & Civil Aviation and Commerce & Industries
Bedu Singh Panth is an Indian politician. He was elected to the Sikkim Legislative Assembly from Temi Nymphing in the 2019 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election as a member of the Sikkim Krantikari Morcha.
28. Shri Thiru Thangam Thennarasu
Government– Tamilnadu
Portfolio– Minister for Finance, Human Resource Management
Thangam Thenarasu (born 3 June 1966) is an Indian politician and the Minister for Finance, Planning, Human Resources Management, Pensions and Pensionary Benefits, Statistics, and Archeology Minister of Tamil Nadu.
29. Shri T.Harish Rao
Government– Telangana
Portfolio– Finance Minister
Thaneeru Harish Rao (born 3 June 1972) is an Indian TRS politician who is the current Minister of State for Finance of Telangana since September 2019 and MLA from Siddipet constituency since 2004.
30. Shri Jishnu Debbarman
Government– Tripura
Portfolio– Deputy Chief Minister
Jishnu Dev Varma also called Jishnu Deb Barman, is an Indian politician from Tripura. He is currently serving as Deputy Chief Minister of the Indian state of Tripura. He is a member of the Tripura royal family. He has two sons, namely Pratik Kishore Dev Varma and Jaibant Dev Varma
31. Shri Suresh Kumar Khanna
Government– Uttar Pradesh
Portfolio– Minister for Finance, Parliamentary Affairs, Medical Education
Suresh Kumar Khanna (born 17 November 1954) is an Indian politician and a member of the 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, and 17th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh in India. Currently, he is serving as Cabinet Minister for Finance, Parliamentary Affairs, and Medical Education Departments in Yogi Adityanath’s ministry.
32. Shri Premchand Aggarwal
Government– Uttrakhand
Portfolio-Hon’ble Minister of Finance, Urban Development, Housing, Legislative and Parliamentary Affairs, Reorganisation and Census
Premchand Aggarwal is an Indian politician and member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Aggarwal is a member of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly from the Rishikesh constituency in the Dehradun district where he has a residence. He is originally from Doiwala. He has been MLA for Rishikesh consecutively in three terms since the 2007 Assembly election.
33. Smt. Chandrima Bhattacharya
Government– West Bengal
Portfolio– Minister of State For Finance
Chandrima Bhattacharya is an All India Trinamool Congress politician and the current Minister of State for Finance (Independent Charge), Health and Family Welfare, Land and Land Reforms, and Refugee and Rehabilitation of the Government of West Bengal. Previously she acted as a minister in the first reshuffle of the ministry in January 2012 after Mamata Banerjee took over as Chief Minister.
Faqs on GST Council Members List
1. What are the numbers of GST council Members?
The GST Council has 33 members and the list is given above in this post.
2. Who is the chairperson of the GST council?
The current Finance Minister Nirmala Sitaraman is the current chairman of the GST Council.
3. Who is the vice chairperson of the GST council?
One member from each state who is Minister in charge of Finance or Taxation or any other Minister and any one of them will be the VICE CHAIRMAN of the GST Council who will be mutually elected by them.
4. There is a pdf List of GST Council Members
Yes here is the link to the GST council members list pdf
5. How do they choose the members of the GST Council?
The Union Minister of State in charge of Revenue or Finance will be the MEMBER of the council; ONE MEMBER from each state who is Minister in charge of Finance or Taxation or any other Minister and any one of them will be VICE CHAIRMAN of the GST Council who will be mutually elected by them.
6. What is the function of GST Council Members?
The function of the GST Council is to create a user-friendly and IT-driven GST structure through the help of wide consultation with the union and the states.
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