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Prayagraj’s ₹106.68 cr GST collection from hotels, restaurants highest in U.P.

Uttar Pradesh saw arrival of 31.85 crore visitors in 2022-2023 while the state government collected ₹330.79 crore as GST from hotels and restaurants in different districts in the state the same year.

Updated on: Dec 8, 2024, 05:56:09 IST
By Umesh Raghuvanshi, Lucknow
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uraghuvanshi@hindustantimes.com

For representation only (File photo)
For representation only (File photo)

Prayagraj collected the highest Goods and Services Tax (GST) of ₹106.68 crore from hotels and restaurants though the inflow of visitors was the most in Varanasi among all the districts of the state in 2022-23.

A state government study of the Gross District Domestic Product (GDDP) provides data about GST collections and the inflow of visitors at the places of religious and tourist importance. It indicates the growing trend of both the realisation of GST from hotels, restaurants and visiting tourists.

Uttar Pradesh saw arrival of 31.85 crore visitors in 2022-2023 while the state government collected ₹330.79 crore as GST from hotels and restaurants in different districts in the state the same year.

Prayagraj, which is set to witness a high inflow of visitors for the Mahakumbh-2025 opening on January 13, 2025, saw arrival of 2.60 crore visitors in 2022-2023. Varanasi, which saw arrival of 7.17 crore visitors, collected a sum of ₹11.45 lakh as GST from hotels and restaurants there.

Agra, which witnessed the arrival of 1.03 crore tourists in 2022-2023 visitors during the period, realised GST revenue of ₹15.45 crore in the same period. Mathura attracted 6.53 crore visitors and collected ₹3.50 crore as GST from hotels and restaurants. About 58.51 lakh visitors came to Lucknow in 2022-2023. The state capital collected ₹29.25 crore GST from the hotels and restaurants. Chitrakoot received 37 lakh visitors and collected ₹18.22 lakh as GST from hotels and restaurants.

 
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Umesh Raghuvanshi

Umesh Raghuvanshi is an award-winning journalist with nearly four decades of demonstrated experience in the profession. He is the author of Ayodhya: The Gods Are Liberated. He is skilled in storytelling and newswriting, and writes on politics, governance, legislature, finance, environment, and social issues. He is based in Lucknow, is well-travelled, and has covered several national and international events, as well as all assembly and parliament elections in Uttar Pradesh since 1984. He has been a visiting scholar at the Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley, USA, and a Metcalf Fellow at the Metcalf Institute of Marine and Environmental Reporting, University of Rhode Island, USA. He is a science graduate from DBS College, Dehradun, and holds an MA in Political Science from DAV (PG) College, Dehradun. He won the KC Kulish International Merit Award for excellence in journalism (2015) and received it in New Delhi in 2017. He also won a competition organised by the United Nations Environment Programme DTIE OzonAction Programme in 2009 that assessed coverage of the interlinkages between ozone and climate change. He was awarded in Beijing, China, in 2010. He started his career with a Dehradun-based English daily in the early 1980s and later worked with The Pioneer too.

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