Process to appoint a new coordinator of the GoM formed to give suggestions on GST rate, has started, due to which the post was vacant

The process of taking a decision on the new convenor of the GOM (Group of Ministers) on GST rate rationalization has been started by the Ministry of Finance. This post has become vacant due to a change of government in the South Indian state of Karnataka.
On September 2021, former Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai was made the chief convenor of the seven-member GOM under the GST Council.
The finance ministry has started talks with other members of the panel to appoint a new convenor. Sources told the news agency PTI that Karnataka will continue to be a member of the GoM and the new convenor will be selected only after holding talks with the members of the GoM.
Apart from Karnataka, the other states in the GoM are Bihar, Goa, Kerala, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, and West Bengal. Usually, the senior member of the GoM is made the convener.
Since Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah also holds the finance portfolio, he may be named as the new convenor of the GoM on GST rate rationalization, news agency PTI reported.
The Union Finance Minister is the head of the GST Council. The finance ministers of the states are also included in this. The GoM on GST rate rationalization was constituted on September 2021. Its purpose is to simplify the structure of GST and to review the items which have been kept out of GST and to take measures to increase the income of governments from GST.