Most of the bullion markets and jewellery showrooms remained closed in major cities.
Association will write a letter to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to demand a rollback.
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Arun Jaitley has rejected the demand for rolling back the levy.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in the Budget for 2016-17 had proposed 1 per cent excise duty on jewellery without input credit or 12.5 per cent with input tax credit on jewellery.
Some jewellers kept their shops shut in Mumbai as well.
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Most jewellery shops and establishments in the country are shut since March 2.
The industry is estimated to have incurred a loss of Rs 10,000 crore (Rs 100 billion).
Jaitley on Monday rejected demands for rollback of the 1% excise duty.
'The government can increase import duty on gold by 1 per cent, instead of imposing excise duty.'
The panel will look into issues related to compliance procedure.
Globally, gold declined from the highest level.
Most of the jewellers who had reopened their showrooms in confusion on Monday, kept shutters down today at Mumbai's Zaveri Bazar and several other places, demanding rollback of the proposal.
The Kapoors prayed for the matriarch at a chautha.
Sneh Prakash Bansal and his panel, as expected, cruised to a landslide victory over former India skipper Bishan Singh Bedi and his team in the Delhi & Districts Cricket Association polls on Tuesday. Bansal defeated the spin wizard in the contest for the DDCA president's post by a whopping 70 percent margin.
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The Delhi High Court on Tuesday issued notices to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Law Minister Somnath Bharti on separate pleas of two BJP leaders seeking to declare their election as void on the ground that they exceeded the poll expense limit of Rs 14 lakh each.
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