Skyrocketing Petrol Prices and Unjust Toll Charges!!!
It is interesting to read the blogs that narrates the travels of different kind. In such blogs, people share their experiences about places and the Long Trips they take in vehicles. However, such blogs or travelogues do not mention the skyrocketing Petrol/Diesel prices in India or the unprincipled toll that is collected at highways. Everyone pays the ever-raising Petrol/Diesel prices; Fill the tanks and go. Without any murmur pays the toll prices and drive in the highways, just like Rich Countries.
I wonder how many people know that the petrol/diesel price includes a cess tax for roads, to improve infrastructure? Whenever we buy petrol and diesel, we pay tax not only for gasoline, but also for road tax. Moreover, each pay road tax to the state for 15 years in the beginning of registration of every automobile.
The drivers or the public do not know how long toll will be collected at each toll plaza or what is the expense of the road that is prepared and how much money is collected every day, or so far to cover the cost of the road. The government might collect or already collected many times, more than the cost of building the roads and maintenance costs. Still collecting tolls, is it justified? What a cheating cheating???
The govt is busy building Roads… good roads… give contracts and earn… ultimately, who earns, who loots the people … politicians, and ruling party heads live comfortably.
NHAI recommended a 5% to 10% hike in toll charges this April. This will sure increase the price of essential commodities. Thousands of people use the toll roads every day for personal travel as well as to move goods. Fruits, vegetables, grains, edible oil, milk, building material and other goods are widely transported via road almost all commodities are transported by road. Nobody can object if the Govt or the NHAI collect a reasonable cost, with a time limit, a minimal charge. Alternatively, reduce all the unwanted taxes from Petro/Diesel. Let people live in India peacefully. People are extremely happy to drive in good roads.
Prime Minister comes, inaugurates the road, is it free? Who pays the cost of Prime Minister's trip and the toll charges?
Is it not the duty of the government to tax less and provide more comfort to people? In India, it happens upside down. The funny thing is: people vote to that government. Can we call People fools or the politician?
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