New Delhi, Dec 18 (TIWN) After a gap of nearly six months, the meeting of GST Council, which is headed by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, would be held on Saturday through video conferencing, it was announced on Friday.

"The 48th Meeting of the GST Council will be held on 17th December, 2022 by video conference," the Finance Ministry tweeted on Friday. The previous meeting of the GST council was held in Chandigarh between June 28 and 29 this year.

Last month, former West Bengal Finance Minister Amit Mitra had exhorted the Union Finance Ministry to "urgently" convene a meeting of the GST Council, saying that it had not met for almost six months.