GUNDA TAX AND DADAGIRI OF SNT EXPOSED

SANJAY AGARWAL-RANGPO-18TH JUNE11

Siliguri and surrounding areas truck drivers and owners associations has completed their homework regarding to file a writ petition at Kolkata high court regarding the Sikkim supervision tax policy of Sikkim nationalised transport department .according to the news the SNT is collecting taxes in the name of supervision tax from the several years .taxes is per tonnes per km basis. For the collection of taxes the round o clock bank is already installed at Rangpo and malli check post .but from several months the SNT has installed a new funda by establishing a tax collection office at 2nd mile siliguri.the associations feels that it’s totally illegal to install a office for collecting taxes in another state. The SNT is collecting the supervision tax from the starting point of siliguri which falls in west Bengal. The association blamed that who has authorised to collect tax of other state by Sikkim state. if SNT has to charge tax than they are authorised to collect for the tax of Sikkim route only not from ssiliguri.approx 80 km road from siliguri to Sikkim is falls in west Bengal area .and for that road also the SNT is collecting supervision tax. The association clarified that its totally like a gunda tax,and dadagiri that Sikkim is collecting tax in other state .in other side the check post authority of SNT at Rangpo and malli is working actively and round o clock bank is also working. Why the office for collecting tax is installed in siliguri no one knows. More than two lakh per month is expending in that office which everyone feels wastage of fund. as the office is open for every day from 10 am to 7 pm and banking hours is also up to 4 pm.the maximum truck shall move to Sikkim after loading only after 7 main prior days many fraud case Of BR and cement was listened from the department .it is suspect that the some corrupted officers of the department has make arrangement for new fraud and corruption case.