The new GST rate for pre-packed, labelled food items including rice, wheat, atta, paneer, curd, jaggery, lassi, buttermilk, labelled meat (except frozen) and fish has now been fixed at 5 percent.
The reforms include loosening restrictions on foreign institutional investors' (FPIs') ability to invest in the debt market and raising the automated route's external commercial borrowing (ECB) cap from USD 750 million or its equivalent to USD 1.5 billion.