NEW DELHI: Telangana State Road Transport Authority officials start collecting entry tax on new Motor Vehicle entering the State.
In wake of private bus operators taking their vehicles off the roads in protest against the new entry tax, flow of traffic on the major arterial highways including NH – 65 (Hyderabad-Vijayawada), NH – 44 (Hyderabad-Bengaluru) came down a bit.
However, reports suggested that vehicles coming from Andhra Pradesh were paying temporary tax for a week in anticipation of the issue being settled shortly. Many vehicle owners are paying tax for just one week to operate their vehicles without any interruption between the two states. But some big time bus operators were paying the quarterly tax.
The move to levy the MV Tax for other State vehicles was stipulated in Government of Telangana’s G.O. MS. No. 15 that was issued on Monday and came into effect from midnight of March 31 which is the time frame set by the earlier G.O. Ms. 43 issued by Governor on June 1, 2014.
Speaking to The Hindu, Deputy Transport Commissioner, Nalgonda, M. Chandrashekar Goud said they have started the tax collection from midnight onwards on Wednesday. Though operation of private buses has come down, Mr. Chandrasekhar said that rest of vehicles was paying without any hindrance.
However, he said that most of the vehicle users were paying short-term tax to enter Telangana. There are three check posts between Andhra Pradesh and Telangana in Nalgonda district which has the longest border with AP.
The vehicles coming from Vijayawada and others parts of A.P. enter Telangana near Kodad where the Transport officials have made arrangements to collect the tax. Since the Transport Department appointed sufficient staff there was not much of waiting time. At any given point of time only 15 to 20 vehicles were waiting at the check posts at Kodad.
