Mumbai: Modi govt waives tax, import duty on medicines for 5 month old Teera Kamat

Teera Kamat, a five-month-old girl from Mumbai, who is suffering from a rare medical condition, her parents had appealed through social media to waive off that 23 per cent import duty and 12 per cent GST that added Rs 6 crore to the cost of Rs 16 crore treatment. 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi immediately took note of the letter written by Devendra Fadnavis, the Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly, and gave them a complete tax exemption.

Teera has been admitted in a suburban hospital, suffers from Spinal Muscular Atrophy in which a complete breakdown of nerve cells results in zero control over muscle movement. Her parents, Priyanka and Mihir Kamat, had written on social media about their child's fight with a debilitating ailment, leading to fund raising.

Fadnavis, on February 1, had written to the Centre requesting a waiver of import duty and GST.

"Sincere gratitude to Hon PM @narendramodi ji for your humanitarian and extremely sensitive approach towards exempting all the taxes (approx ₹6.5 crore) for importing the life saving drug for Mumbai’s 5 month old Teera Kamat!I wish Teera a speedy recovery & healthy life!," Fadnavis said in a letter to the Prime Minister's Office on Tuesday. 

Sincere gratitude to Hon PM @narendramodi ji for your humanitarian and extremely sensitive approach towards exempting all the taxes (approx ₹6.5 crore) for importing the life saving drug for Mumbai’s 5 month old Teera Kamat!
I wish Teera a speedy recovery & healthy life! pic.twitter.com/wxT8PsnSx5

— Devendra Fadnavis (@Dev_Fadnavis) February 9, 2021