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Trucks to go off roads in Rajasthan

Jaipur: Demanding diesel price slash and parity in value added tax, trucks in Rajasthan will go off the roads from midnight on Sunday as a part of the agitation.

Over three lakh trucks will not ply on the roads and around 30 lakh employees in the business will take part in the agitation beginning today (Monday), Ramprakash Choudhary, a spokesman of the Rajasthan Truck Operators’ Union, said here.

The booking at the transport office in the state has already been stopped since Saturday, he said.

Backing a national call by the All-India Motor Transport Congress, the state unit will also press it’s 10-point demand-charter, Mr. Choudhary said.

Rajasthan has been charging 28 per cent VAT on diesel used in trucks for the last five years as against the national average of 4 per cent, he said adding the charges were irrational. The union also demanded reduction in value tax on buying old trucks which Mr. Choudhary said was equivalent to the one paid on the purchase of a new vehicle. - PTI

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