<ul><li>The Maha Kumbh festival in UP helped the state achieve double-digit growth in GST collections.</li><li>The overall collections in March boosted the average collection in the January-March quarter.</li><li>The boost in collections during the Kumbh Mela was not seen as an astronomical rise, but rather in line with general GST trends.</li><li>The impact of the Kumbh Mela on infrastructure and long-term tourism growth is expected to be more significant than the immediate tax gains.</li></ul>

Maha Kumbh helped UP notch up ₹10,000 cr in March GST collections

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