Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, May 7 : Traders Association and Sumo Union Anantnag today threatened to launch agitation if imposition of toll tax on National Highway is not revoked.
General Secretary All Traders and Manufacturers Association Anantnag, Hakeem Sajad Shah, said that the toll tax shall be collected from only outsiders and not from people of the Valley. He expressed serious concern about the harsh tax rate on public transport and demanded an exemption for the local population of Kashmir.
He said that such a harsh move will have a tremendous impact on trade and commerce and as such shall be done away with immediately.
“If such anti-people and harsh order is not revoked forthwith we will have no other option but to launch an agitation and all responsibility shall lie on the Government in that eventuality,” Hakeem said.
He said that toll shall be only collected from outsiders.
General Secretary Hamdaniya Sumo Stand Union Janglatmandi, Anantnag, Shabir Ahmad, said that such a move is anti-people and would prove a burden on poor people if continued. “We are already facing tremendous hardships for various accounts. We have to pay loans and other expenses and this is simply adding more burden on us which we may not cope with,” he said.
“If continued we will be left with no option but to increase the fare which will add to miseries of people particularly poor. The order is nothing but anti-people and no government should resort to such anti-people measures,” he added.
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