in collection from the national calamity contingency duty imposed on several products as many of the items are now covered under gst as a result the annual collection in the kitty is projected to shrink to rs 2500 crore from around rs 5700 crore in 201516 with a smaller corpus the centre would now have to allocate funds for the purposethe stand taken by the gom addresses concerns of several states that did not want their consumers to bear the burden of a statespecific natural calamity besides there would have been issues related to distribution of the taxes that were collected through a higher gst ministers thought that states would themselves be prudent in imposing a cess as they would not want consumers to be unnecessarily burdened