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Centre exempts toll tax for vehicles carrying relief goods to J&K 9/18/2014 11:03:25 PM New Delhi, Sept 18 : Government has ordered waiving of toll tax from all vehicles transporting the relief material to flood-hit Jammu and Kashmir. "All vehicles carrying relief material from Delhi to Jammu and Kashmir have been exempted from paying 'user fee' at toll plazas on national highways on production of the exemption certificates issued by the office of the Principal Resident Commissioner at J&K House here," a Road, Transport and Highways Ministry spokesman said here today. The Ministry has authorised the Principal Resident Commissioner to issue exemption certificates to vehicles carrying such relief material from Delhi to Jammu till September 24. The decision was taken on the request of some organisations mobilising relief material to help people in flood-affected areas in the state. Road, Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari was expected to visit the flood-affected areas in the next few days for an on-the-spot survey of the damaged roads, especially the rural one built under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojna (PMGSY). With water levels receding in the Valley, the Centre has begun an assessment of the magnitude of the damage caused to the road network in the unprecedented floods. The Drinking Water and Sanitation Ministry, also headed by Gadkari, has been airlifting water bottles for the flood victims and has dispatched water purification plants of four lakh litres per day capacity to help augment drinking water supply in the Valley. A senior official from the Ministry was coordinating the supply of drinking water to the relief and rehabilitation camps in the state.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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