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| 6 Toll Plazas for Jammu, institutionalized loot: Harsh | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 6: Strongly condemning the union govt for proposing two additional Toll Plazas in Jammu on the National Highway from Lakhanpur to Jammu and one at Fallan Mandal on the Ring road, Harsh Dev Singh JKNPP Chairman and former Minister said that the move was fraught with dangerous portends. He said that people of Jammu were wary of even the existing Toll Plaza at Ban which was taxing them heavily in addition to the commercial Toll Plaza at Lakhanpur and another at Nashri. There were several protests against the Ban Toll Plaza in Jammu and elsewhere with people cutting across party lines seeking the disbanding of the said plaza whose rates were amongst the highest in the country. Besides the people were seeking disbanding of Lakhanpur Toll Plaza on the pretext of double taxation. It was however disturbing to note that rather than shutting down Ban Toll, the GOI had embarked upon the construction two additional Toll Plazas at Hiranagar and Sarore in Jammu within a distance of around 40 Kms besides a third one on the Ring road. Describing the proposed operation of six Toll Plazas in close proxity of Jammu as an act of organized and institutionalized loot, Singh cautioned to launch an agitation in case the decision to install new Toll Plazas was not revoked at the earliest. He said that such huge taxation in the form of multiple Toll Plazas was simply unaffordable for the common masses and particularly those who had to commute on regular basis between Jammu, Samba, Marh and Lakhanpur. Further they constituted the most menacing threat to the pockets of students, labourers, farmers and other economically weaker sections of society. With pilgrims and tourists also having to pay toll at six different locations in the vicinity of Jammu alone, the business and tourism of the region was also likely to be adversely impacted. He said that the traders, transporters and other private operators had also expressed their concern over the issue which had the potential to explode in a big way. |
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