Revenue collection drops by 50%, Non-Cooperation effect
News pulse, Politics | admin | February 17, 2011 at 8:26 pm
Government employees taking part in Telangana Joint Action Committee’s non-cooperation call brought the district administration to a grinding halt on Thursday. It has also resulted in loss of revenue to the state exchequer by over Rs 150 crore only from two revenue-earning departments
Though the employees in the offices of the Commercial Taxes, Registration and Stamps and duty and Excise and prohibition departments were physically present in the offices, they did not attend to official duties. All the employees were sporting badges which read “non-cooperation.”
In all about Rs 100 to Rs 150 crore tax money has not been collected which included excise tax from the wine shops bars and pubs. Normally, the department collects Rs 250 to Rs 300 crore as tax everyday. It means the government revenue had dipped by 50%.
Barring emergency services like medical, sanitation, electricity, water works and bus, government employees of all other departments took part in the non-cooperation, which has been entirely violence-free.
“The entire administration has been paralysed,” said Paritala Subba Rao, chairman of Warangal Government Employees Joint Action Committee. Expressing solidarity with the government employees, the all-union JAC of Singareni also observed a two-hour tool down affecting coal production.
The worst-affected government department, however, was the RTC as bus drivers found it difficult to resume service at many places after passengers refused to buy tickets. TRS leader and MLA KT Rama Rao also travelled in a RTC bus without purchasing a ticket from Khairatabad to Assembly.
Meanwhile, Telangana Political JAC leader M Kodandaram said that all government employees and teachers participated in the movement and made it a grand success on the first day of the movement.
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