Registration under GST — The applicant is a charitable trust registered under the Bombay Public Trust Act, 1950. It was established for community based research, policy analysis, planning and technical assistance for the purpose of enhancing prevention, mitigation and management of disasters and reorientation of relief and reconstruction to local initiatives. applicant has raised the following question for the purpose of advance ruling— Whether the applicant is liable for registration under the GST Acts? Held that— we find that the activities of the applicant relating to disaster prevention, disaster mitigation and disaster management are activities relating to “preservation of environment”. Thus, the activities of the applicant are considered as charitable activities and hence, activities of the applicant, being registered under Section 12AA of the Income Tax Act, 1961, exempt from tax under the GST Acts, by virtue of Entry No. 1 of the Notification No.12/2017-Central Tax (Rate) dated 28.06.2017 as mentioned above. Consequently, the applicant is not liable to registration in respect of charitable activities relating to preservation of environment which attracts nil rate of GST, by virtue of Section 23(1) (a) of the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017. — All India Disaster Mitigation Institute, In Re…[2019] 16 TAXLOK.COM 225 (AAR-Gujarat)