Lok Sabha passes Manipur Appropriation Bill, 2025 & Manipur Goods and Services Tax (Amendment) Bill, 2025

The Lok Sabha on Thursday passed the Manipur Appropriation Bill, 2025, amid sloganeering by opposition members over revision of Bihar electoral rolls.

Lok Sabha also passed The Manipur Goods and Services Tax (Amendment) Bill, 2025, to implement the decisions approved by the GST Council. The bill seeks to replace the Manipur Goods and Services Tax (Amendment) Ordinance, 2025.

Soon after the passing of the Bill by voice vote, Lok Sabha proceedings were adjourned for the day.


Manipur Appropriation Bill, 2025 authorises payment and appropriation of certain sums from and out of the Consolidated Fund of the State of Manipur for the services of the current financial year.

The mentioned Bill was passed without any discussion as opposition members did not relent.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman slammed the opposition over disrupting the Lok Sabha proceedings and said while they talk of Manipur, they do not want money to go to the state, which is under President's rule.

Speaking on the Manipur Goods and Services Tax (Amendment) Bill, 2025, Sitharaman said, "When the government brings a Budget for Manipur - allocating funds for its development - the Opposition neither listens to it nor has the courage to engage with it."

She said that the amendment is a constitutional necessity which has to be taken up now.

"If it doesn't pass now, the state will have difficulty in implementing the amendments which has long been approved by the Council. Their revenue will get affected because they won't have the authority to charge (tax) on certain items," Sitharaman said.

She announced that the government has made an additional allocation of Rs 2,898 crore for Manipur, of which Rs 1,667 crore will be spent under the Capital Head and Rs 1,231 crore under the Revenue Head.

The additional fund allocation is said to support rehabilitation of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), security-related expenditure, deployment charges for CAPFs, prepayment of high-interest loans and additional support under SASCI.

This bill seeks to make changes to Section 9 of Manipur GST Act, 2017, allowing the state to "levy State tax on un-denatured extra neutral alcohol or rectified spirit used for manufacture of alcoholic liquor for human consumption".

The GST council, chaired by the Sitharaman and comprising state ministers, had in its 52nd meeting in October 2023 recommended keeping Extra Neutral Alcohol (ENA) used for the manufacture of alcoholic liquor for human consumption outside GST.

(With inputs from agencies)