Thursday, July 10, 2008

Toll Plazas in OMR

As Chennai under gone lot of renovations in the past few years, road network have improved a lot and new roads are laid to keep Chennai moving on its alarming growth rate. A few such landmark ventures are ECR Project, OMR Project, Inner and Outer Ring Road project and Pallavaram Highway Project and it keeps adding to the list.

The recent project which is in the completion mode and widely used by the public or probably forced to used, since all the IT companies are moved here, major part of the population are forced to use this Road, so it obviously becomes the Government’s responsibility to improve the road standards, when you ask a section of people to move an isolated location, it becomes the Government responsibility to organize the things for them, for which they any which ways collect taxes and why the fine as well, I mean the toll price.

I was shocked to hear that there will be a toll plaza imposing fines on the motorists for using this road, as if I’m volunteered to use it, I was forced. Any which ways Property Tax, Road Tax, Corporation/ Panchyat Tax are collected for the welfare of the area apart from this, billions are collected as tax from the Public for fulfilling there basic needs, which includes the road transport as well. It is purely there responsibility to provide these amenities to the public from the tax they have collected if they can’t do this they don’t know proper budgeting. I know that the lion share of the tax collected is given to the Defense and security system of the Nation however the catch is major share of the tax collected tax is bribed to the leaders, who are good at converting the White to Black. This is not a myth an undiscovered and unexplored truth.

Every political leader in India is a Bermuda’s triangle anyone tries to explore disappears leaving no trace of the investigator. Below is the rough calculation that the government would like to swindle from the public and my calculations are based on the minimal percentage at any given point of time and will definitely be twice or thrice the figure which shown below.

The entire OMR project was estimated to INR 290 CR, and the collections are turned out to be INR 33.3 CR (which is bare minimum and expected to be twice of this) per year assuming that there is no increase/decrease in the vehicles in 10 yrs with this collections rate, Government can earn a profit of INR 50 CR (Approx) excluding interest. As a common man I would like to know what has happened to my Tax money which I have paid for my amenities. Hope I don’t get an answer from the Government stating it has been utilized for paying interest, sarcastically. An additional monthly expenditure that any person will incur due to this swindle is given below.
Remember I have already paid 30% tax for this expenditure, after paying the tax for this income I’m utilizing this for paying the fine, and this increases as my number of trips to home to office, and office to home increases. Thanks for the polls which got these tolls.
If I planned to drive from OMR to ECR, or vice versa, I’m bound to pay fine at both the tolls, which is even worse, rather I would say it as lethal. I don’t know how it gonna workout in this situation, if they say I have to there any way where I need have to. At this rate of compromise we don’t even care if someone grabs our property or molests our girl. We compromise, we no longer wroth to be called as animal with six senses, when we are not even behaving like animals, who don’t compromise, have you ever heard an ant compromising with human.
When an ant has no fears for human, I wonder why human fears his/her fellow creation.