India's tax effect - Hundreds of thousands laid off despite growth
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PANIPAT, India (Reuters) - Tilak Raj Bathla's tiny weaving factory is one of the few still humming on a once busy road in the northern Indian city of Panipat, known as the country's "textile city".Nearby, more than two dozen other workshops are locked from the outside, while dogs and cows roam through other abandoned factories. Scrap dealers enquire about idle powerlooms.India launched the Goods and Services Tax (GST) just over a year ago, its biggest ever tax reform, aiming to replace more than..