Transport Commissioner

In a major drive, a Special Squad of Transport Commissioner, has cracked down on vehicles and other specialised equipment used in the construction sector operating without paying tax for several years and collected a Rs. 2 crore within a month.

Transport Commissioner Raymond Peter said these vehicles and equipment included road rollers, compactors, payers, graders and front-end loaders belonging to several big companies and 155 cases were booked. Six Motor Vehicles Inspectors and six constables were drafted for work in the department’s vigilance wing, with orders to curb tax evasion.

Check on violation

Following the drive, he said it was found that many companies operating specialised construction equipment were not volunteering to pay up taxes for such vehicles. A separate counter has been opened at the Road Transport Authority’s central office in Khairatabad here. He said the squad was formed to check such violation by some big construction companies “who had scant respect for the law”.

Mr. Peter also said they had started cracking down on private buses that were running inter-State services on ‘single or two-district’ permits by paying just Rs. 890 per seat per quarter, instead of the prescribed amount of Rs. 3,650.