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Wednesday,
June 13, 2012 (13:55:26)
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Tags : Maharashtra, Maharashtra Navnirman
Sena, Raj Thackeray, toll collection policy, Prithviraj Chavan,
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MNS activists attack toll posts across Maharashtra
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Mumbai,
June 13: A day after Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS)
chief Raj Thackeray questioned the toll collection policy of the state
government, hundreds of MNS activists today attacked and damaged toll posts in
various parts of the state, police said.
The activists attacked toll posts in Thane district's Virar
and Vasai towns, district headquarters of Nashik, Aurangabad and Buldhana,
among other places in Maharashtra. They chased away toll collectors from Virar
and Nashik toll posts, according to police.
Training guns on the state government, the MNS chief on Tuesday
had questioned the collection of toll tax in the state. "It is not wrong
to impose toll, but to keep on collecting it even after the costs have been
recovered is wrong," Thackeray said.
Thackeray had also sought support from anti-corruption
crusader Anna Hazare, who while endorsing the MNS's stand on toll tax had asked
the party to refrain from violence.
The MNS has also found support among many road users who
have been demanding an end to the toll collection.
Referring to Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan's promise to
make Maharashtra "plastic-free," Thackeray demanded that first the
chief minister should make the state toll-free to relieve the road users of
this burden.
The MNS chief also raised doubts over the manner in which
the toll collection was being carried out across the state "without any
transparency".
"What is the cost of the project; within what period
has the cost been recovered; how many vehicles pass through these toll posts
daily... Nothing is displayed at the posts. Yet, collections are being carried
out... All these questions need to be answered," Thackeray demanded.
MNS workers on Tuesday trooped to various toll posts in
Mumbai's Dahisar suburb, Thane's Vasai, and in Nashik district, leading to
major traffic snarls, police said.
Mumbai, India's financial capital, has five entry points,
which generate an estimated annual revenue of over Rs.2 billion on an average
from toll collection, one of the major sources of income for the state
government.
The collection is made either
directly by the government agencies engaged in building infrastructure or by
contractors appointed for the purpose. (IANS)
MNS activists
attack toll posts across Maharashtra
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Mumbai,
June 13 (IANS) A day after Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray
questioned the toll collection policy of the state government, hundreds of MNS
activists Wednesday attacked and damaged toll posts in various parts of the
state, police said.
The
activists attacked toll posts in Thane district's Virar and Vasai towns,
district headquarters of Nashik, Aurangabad and Buldhana, among other places in
Maharashtra. They chased away toll collectors from Virar and Nashik toll posts,
according to police.
Training
guns on the state government, the MNS chief Tuesday had questioned the
collection of toll tax in the state. "It is not wrong to impose toll, but
to keep on collecting it even after the costs have been recovered is
wrong," Thackeray said.
Thackeray
had also sought support from anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare, who while
endorsing the MNS's stand on toll tax had asked the party to refrain from
violence.
The MNS
has also found support among many road users who have been demanding an end to
the toll collection.
Referring
to Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan's promise to make Maharashtra
"plastic-free," Thackeray demanded that first the chief minister
should make the state toll-free to relieve the road users of this burden.
The MNS
chief also raised doubts over the manner in which the toll collection was being
carried out across the state "without any transparency".
"What
is the cost of the project; within what period has the cost been recovered; how
many vehicles pass through these toll posts daily... Nothing is displayed at
the posts. Yet, collections are being carried out... All these questions need
to be answered," Thackeray demanded.
MNS
workers Tuesday trooped to various toll posts in Mumbai's Dahisar suburb,
Thane's Vasai, and in Nashik district, leading to major traffic snarls, police
said.
Mumbai,
India's financial capital, has five entry points, which generate an estimated
annual revenue of over Rs.2 billion on an average from toll collection, one of
the major sources of income for the state government.
The
collection is made either directly by the government agencies engaged in
building infrastructure or by contractors appointed for the purpose.
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