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This clarifies further that the demand of weavers for refund of unutilised credit is genuine” There was no response from her ministry on the meeting. The government owes us Rs 500 crore and that they cannot ignore our demand”From the last few days, leaders of the powerloom sector have been running the campaign in the city urging the weavers not to file the GST return to protest the government’s stand on the ITC. It seems that the Government of India and textile ministry have made up their minds to harass the powerloom sector”Jirawala added, “We are not begging, but demanding our rightful share from the government, which we have paid on the input services. Banners have come up in various industrial societies across the city asking the weavers to boycott the GST return.Ashish Gujarati, president of Pandesara Weavers society said, “Even the Gujarat high has given interim stay on retrospective amendment of change in refund provision by the government for inverted duty structure on inputs and not on input services..