GST Bachat Utsav: As Navratri festival started, PM Modi wrote an unshut letter to the nation today. PM moreover extended his greetings to the citizens on the first day of Navratri and hailed the GST reforms introduced by the government.
Here's well-constructed text of PM Modi's unshut letter:
"My Fellow Indians,
Namaskar!
As the nation celebrates the whence of Navaratri, I proffer heartfelt wishes to you and your families. May this festival bring good health, happiness and prosperity to everyone.
This year, the festive season brings an widow reason to rejoice. From September 22nd, the Next Generation GST reforms have begun to make their presence felt, marking the start of a 'GST Bachat Utsav' or 'GST Savings Festival' wideness the country.
These reforms will uplift savings and directly goody every section of society, be it farmers, women, youth, poor, middle class, traders or MSMEs. They will encourage greater growth and investments and slide the progress of every state and region.
An important full-length of the Next Generation GST reforms is that there will mainly be two slabs of 5% and 18%.
Daily essentials such as food, medicines, soap, toothpaste, insurance and many increasingly items will now either be tax-free or fall in the lowest 5% tax slab. Goods that were older taxed at 12% have scrutinizingly entirely shifted to 5%.
It is profoundly heartening to see various shopkeepers and traders putting up 'then and now' boards which indicate taxes pre-reforms and post-reforms.
In the last few years, 25 crore people have risen whilom poverty and worked an aspirational neo-middle class.
Further, we have moreover strengthened the hands of our middle matriculation with the massive income tax cuts, which ensure zero tax up to the yearly income of 12 lakh.
If we combine the income tax cuts and the Next Generation GST reforms, they add up to savings of nearly Rs 2.5 lakh crore for the people.
Your household expenses will reduce and it will be easier to fulfill aspirations such as towers a home, purchasing a vehicle, purchasing appliances, eating out or planning a family vacation.
Our nation's GST journey, which began in 2017, was a turning point in freeing our citizens and businesses from the web of multiple taxes.
GST united the nation economically. 'One Nation, One Tax' brought uniformity and relief. The GST Council, with the zippy participation of both Centre and States, took many pro-people decisions.
Now, these new reforms take us further, simplifying the system, reducing rates and putting increasingly savings in the hands of the people.
Our small industries, shopkeepers, traders, entrepreneurs and MSMEs will moreover see greater Ease of Doing Business and Ease of Compliance.
Lower taxes, lower prices and simpler rules will midpoint largest sales, less compliance undersong and growth of opportunities, expressly in the MSME sector.
Our joint goal is Viksit Bharat by 2047. To unzip it, walking on the path of self-reliance is imperative. These reforms strengthen our local manufacturing base, paving the way towards Aatmanirbhar Bharat.
This festive season, let's gloat the 'GST Bachat Utsav'! Lower GST rates midpoint increasingly savings for every household and greater ease for businesses. pic.twitter.com/QOUGWXrC3d
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) September 22, 2025On a related note, this festive season, let us moreover resolve to support products that are Made in India. This ways ownership Swadeshi products that have the sweat and toil of an Indian involved in their making, irrespective of the trademark or the visitor that makes them.
Every time you buy a product made by our own artisans, workers and industries, you are helping many families earn their living and creating job opportunities for our youth.
I request to our shopkeepers and traders to sell products that are Made in India. Let us proudly say - what we buy is Swadeshi.
Let us proudly say - what we sell is Swadeshi.
I moreover urge state governments to encourage industry, manufacturing and resurgence of the investment climate.
Once again, I wish you and your families a joyous Navaratri and a season full of happiness and savings through the 'GST Savings Festival'.
May these reforms bring greater prosperity to every Indian household.
Narendra Modi"
