India vows to launch major tax reform on schedule

India's Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said Thursday his government was determined to launch a landmark national sales tax on schedule, just hours after a chaos-hit parliament shut down without passing the bill. Jaitley left open the option of reconvening the just-ended session of parliament to push through the long-awaited bill, one of the biggest economic reforms in decades aimed at boosting growth. "We are determined that it be implemented on April 1," Jaitley told reporters in