From Our Special Correspondent
NEW DELHI: Union Minister of State for Rural Development Agatha Sangma on Tuesday urged Dr Mukul Sangma to personally intervene and review the recent hike in the tax structure on commercial vehicles, which she felt would have a disastrous spiraling effect on common man with steep rise in prices of essentials besides the fares.
“I am deeply concerned with the recent hike in the tax structure, and I am quite confident that the hike in taxes is going to hit common man very badly,” Agatha wrote in a letter to the Chief Minister. Please look into the matter personally and review the decision, she said.
The Union Minister received representations from Meghalaya Commercial Truck Owners’ and Operators’ Association and others regarding the steep hike in taxes imposed recently on all types of commercial vehicles by the State Government. “Going through the government notification I have noted that it is more than four to five times increase in the Road Tax and Compose Tax,” she said.
Opposition NCP and several social organisations have raised their objections to the recent hike in vehicular taxes. Besides NGOs, commercial vehicle owners and drivers had called office picketing in support of their demand recently.