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Total shutdown in Kolhapur to protest toll tax levy
Tuesday January 10, 2012 08:05:53 AM,
IANS
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Kolhapur (Maharashtra): The entire Kolhapur city observed a total shutdown Monday as part
of a mass agitation against the state government's decision to
levy toll tax on road users.
Angry protestors on more than 500 two- and four-wheelers brought
out a rally and carried posters displaying their disapproval for
having to pay a toll to drive on city roads.
While schools and colleges remained closed, all other businesses
including hotels, restaurants, markets, and even tea stalls downed
shutters in protest.
The bandh was called by all political parties and social
organisations' joint action committee to demand withdrawal of toll
imposed by the state government.
The government had signed an agreement for a Rs 220-crore project
by IRB, an infrastructure development company for constructing
around 50 km of roads in the city. The project was on a
build-operate-transfer (BOT) basis, permitting the company to
collect toll for 30 years.
As the state government recently granted the company permission to
collect the toll, some protesters damaged some toll collection
points to express their resentment.
According to police, IRB's toll booth at city's Kasabavada suburb
was set on fire by unidentified people late Sunday making it the
seventh toll booth of total nine to be damaged during the last
three weeks.
Several leaders including Congress legislative councillors
Mahadevrao Mahadik and Dhananjay Mahadik, legislator P.N. Patil
and others participated in the mass protest.
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