Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 13: The Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) has asked the Govt to address the genuine concerns and resolve the genuine demands and issues of transporters and the trading community including fruit traders of Jammu, whose crores of rupees are invested in Kashmir Valley with fruit growers.
Reacting to the various issues and concerns expressed by the transporters and trading community including the fruit traders, former MLC and PCC chief spokesperson, Ravinder Sharma has expressed full solidarity with the business community facing hardships on account of non extension of date of IT returns, exorbitant rates of penalties for traffic violations as well as unreasonable hike in fees and taxes fixed in the new norms and non-recovery of the huge amounts of advance money to the fruit growers in Kashmir.
He said it is unfortunate that the dates for income tax returns has not been extended despite snapping of net services since last few months, which made it impractical for all IT assesses to file returns. It is totally unrealistic on the part of Centre Govt not to extend the dates. The genuine concerns of the fruit traders regarding their crores of rupees invested in Kashmir and also other trading losses should be taken care by the state and Centre Govt.
Likewise, the demand for roll back of exorbitant hikes in fees, taxes and penalties in motor vehicle law needs to be considered, as the transport business is already in great hardships, due to faulty, economic policies and worst ever economic slowdown in the country, the Congress said.
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