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Healthians.com expands service offerings
MUMBAI: Healthians.com has expanded its services on World Health Day. It will now offer crowd sourced sample collectors for home visits and crowd sourced hyperlocal doctors for complimentary test report reading, apart from storing patients medical records online. It also launched free Doctor Helpline to help users take first or second opinion regarding medical tests.
“100 per cent of the medical labs that we approached have tied up with us. Hospital chains too are supportive and tie-ups with Max Healthcare, Medanta, BLK, Express Clinics, Artemis, etc. are in various stages of implementation,” said Healthians.com founder Deepak Sahni.
“With feedback from initial users, we thought about the entire process of medical tests bottom up and saw multiple pain areas. The traditional systems are cumbersome, need multiple visits to a doctor first, then to medical lab next day, and then doctor again with the report. With Healthians, the patient gets better and faster experience,” added Sahni.
Post test reports, hyperlocal doctors offer complimentary report reading on the same evening through a call, as this helps them connect with new and incremental nearby patients. It is also in the process of tying up with chemists for aggregating offline demand.
While the scope of the service has expanded, the business model remains asset light. The hyperlocal sample collectors and doctors are crowd sourced. Apart from convenience, speed and savings, the platform also offers digital storage of medical reports.
“Digital storage of medical records has received limited success since it requires either the doctor or the patient to upload the test data online, which has friction. Since Healthians receives test data directly from labs, the systems is able to store the reports automatically,” admits Sahni.
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Jubilant FoodWorks faces Rs 47.5 crore GST demand, plans appeal
Tax authorities flag alleged misclassification of restaurant services
MUMBAI: Jubilant FoodWorks Limited has landed in a tax tussle after receiving a GST demand of Rs 47.5 crore from the office of the additional commissioner of CGST and central excise in Thane, Maharashtra.
The order, issued under the provisions of the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017, relates to an alleged incorrect classification of certain services under the category of restaurant services. According to the tax authorities, this classification resulted in a short payment of goods and services tax for the period between the financial years 2019-20 and 2021-22.
The demand includes Rs 47.5 crore in GST along with an equal amount as penalty, in addition to applicable interest. The order was received by the company on March 13, 2026.
In a regulatory filing to the BSE Limited and the National Stock Exchange of India Limited, the company said it disagrees with the order and believes its arguments were not adequately considered.
The company is preparing to challenge the decision and plans to file an appeal. It added that once the redressal process is complete, the demand is likely to be dropped.
Despite the sizeable figure attached to the notice, the company said it does not expect any material impact on its financials, operations or other activities.
The disclosure was signed by Suman Hegde, EVP and chief financial officer, who confirmed that the company received the order at 19:06 IST on March 13 and has already initiated steps to contest it.
The development places the quick service restaurant major in the middle of a tax debate that could hinge on how certain restaurant-linked services are classified under GST rules. For now, the company appears ready to take the matter from the tax office to the appeals desk.
