The GST Council meeting has finally approved that sanitary napkins are exempted from goods and service tax. Earlier under the one-year old GST regime, sanitary napkins were taxed at 12 per cent. As sanitary napkins are exempted from tax, there would be no input tax credit available. The 28th GST council meeting also slashed the GST rate on bamboo to 12 per cent. In addition to this, there are some other items on which GST was reduced and include water heaters, footwear, refrigerators, hair dryers, food appliances, ironing machines, to name a few.