{"id":74554,"date":"2025-12-08T15:31:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T10:01:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-12-08T15:31:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T10:01:03","slug":"aap-leader-raghav-chadha-calls-highway-tolls-an-organised-loot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=74554","title":{"rendered":"AAP leader Raghav Chadha calls highway tolls an organised loot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AAP leader Raghav Chadha calls highway tolls an organised loot<BR>GST<BR>Dated:- 8-12-2025<BR>PTI<BR>New Delhi, Dec 8 (PTI) Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Raghav Chadha on Monday called the country&#39;s highway toll collection an &#8220;organised loot&#8221;, saying mismanagement and excessive charges were placing an &#8220;unbearable&#8221; burden on commuters.<br \/>\n &#8220;Toll is taking a big toll on the people of India,&#8221; Chadha said, arguing that &#8220;persistent congestion, utter mismanagement and over-profiteering&#8221; at toll plazas had turned the experience of road users from &#8220;inconvenience to injustice&#8221;.<br \/>\n Raising the issue through a zero hour mention in the Rajya Sabha, the MP claimed toll payments had become a form of &#8220;harassment&#8221;, contending that Indians already face one of t<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Plain text (Extract) only<\/strong><BR>For full text:-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxtmi.com\/news?id=63969\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p>ch year, he added.<br \/>\n Chadha cited recent Kerala and Jammu &#038; Kashmir High Court rulings that operators could not collect toll on roads that were not maintained to required standards.<br \/>\n He also highlighted frequent congestion and delays at toll plazas due to lane closures and poor management. &#8220;Highways are meant for seamless connectivity, seamless mobility. But who will calculate the cost of congestion at toll plazas?&#8221; he said, listing wasted fuel, lost productivity, missed appointments and mental agony as hidden costs borne by commuters.<br \/>\n &#8220;If you add all these costs, you will find that they are an invisible cost to the economy,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\n Chadha further alleged that toll collection often continued even after the full cost of road construct<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Plain text (Extract) only<\/strong><BR>For full text:-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxtmi.com\/news?id=63969\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AAP leader Raghav Chadha calls highway tolls an organised lootGSTDated:- 8-12-2025PTINew Delhi, Dec 8 (PTI) Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Raghav Chadha on Monday called the country&#8217;s highway toll collection an &#8220;organised loot&#8221;, saying mismanagement and exc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}