Members of the GST Council are the governing body having 33 numbers of members out of which 2 members are of the center and three members are from 28 states and 3 union territories with legislation. If you are looking more about utgst full form, you can do so by clicking here.
| Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman | Govt. of India | Union Finance Minister |
| Shri Pankaj Chaudhary | Govt. of India | Union Minister of State (Finance) |
| Shri Buggana Rajendranath | Andhra Pradesh | Finance Minister |
| Shri Chowna Mein | Arunachal Pradesh | Deputy Chief Minister |
| Smt. Ajanta Neog | Assam | Finance Minister |
| Shri Tarkishore Prasad | Bihar | Deputy Chief Minister |
| Shri T.S Singh Deo | Chhattisgarh | Minister for Commercial Tax |
| Shri Manish Sisodia | Delhi | Deputy Chief Minister |
| Shri Mauvin Godinho | Goa | Minister for Transport and Panchayat Raj, Housing, Protocol and Legislative Affairs |
| Shri Nitinbhai Patel | Gujarat | Deputy Chief Minister |
| Shri Dushyant Chautala | Haryana | Deputy Chief Minister |
| ShriBikramm Singh | Himachal Pradesh | Minister for Industries |
| Shri Rajeev Rai Bhatnagar | UT of Jammu & Kashmir | Advisor to Lieutenant Governor |
| Dr. Rameshwar Oraon | Jharkhand | Minister for Planning cum Finance, Commercial Taxes and Food, Public Distribution and Consumer Affairs |
| Shri Basavaraj Bommai | Karnataka | Minister for Home Affairs, Law &Parliamentary Affairs |
| Shri K N Balagopal | Kerala | Finance Minister |
| Shri Jagdish Devdas | Madhya Pradesh | Finance Minister |
| Shri Ajit Pawar | Maharashtra | Finance Minister |
| Shri Yumnam Joykumar Singh | Manipur | Deputy Chief Minister |
| Shri Conrad Kongkal Sangma | Meghalaya | Chief Minister |
| Shri Lalchamliana | Mizoram | Minister for Taxation, Home and Disaster Management & Rehabilitation |
| Shri Metsubo Jamir | Nagaland | Minister for Rural Development |
| Shri Niranjan Pujari | Odisha | Minister of Finance and Excise |
| Shri K. Lakshminarayanan | Puducherry | Hon’ble Public Works Minister |
| Shri Manpreet Singh Badal | Punjab | Finance Minister |
| Shri Shanti Kumar Dhariwal | Rajasthan | Minister for Local Self Government, Urban Development & Housing, Law & Legal Affairs and Parliamentary Affairs |
| Shri B. S. Panth | Sikkim | Minister of Tourism & Industries |
| Dr.Palanivel Thiaga Rajan | Tamil Nadu | Minister for Finance, Human Resource Management |
| Shri T.Harish Rao | Telangana | Finance Minister |
| Shri Jishnu Dev Varma | Tripura | Deputy Chief Minister |
| Shri Suresh Kumar Khanna | Uttar Pradesh | Minister for Finance, Parliamentary Affairs, Medical Education |
| Shri Pushkar Singh Dhami | Uttarakhand | Chief Minister |
| Dr. Amit Mitra | West Bengal | Finance Minister |
Elections of the Members
Article 279A is on the president’s part to give the order to constitute the council of GST within 60 days from the 12th of September 2016, to which the Government already notifies.
Following are the designated personnel, who will form the GST Council together:-
- The Union Finance Minister who will be the CHAIRMAN of the council;
- The Union Minister of State in charge of Revenue or Finance who will be the MEMBER of council;
- ONE MEMBER from each state who is Minister in charge of Finance/Taxation or any other Minister & anyone of them will be vice-chairmen of the GST Council who they will mutually select.
Conclusion
More than 15 states passed the CAB, and on September 8, 2016, the Hon’ble President signed “The Constitution (One Hundred and First Amendment) Act, 2016” into law. Since then, the GST Council has been notified, establishing a constitutional body to decide on GST-related problems.
