{"id":275703,"date":"2019-05-22T07:10:27","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T07:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=275703"},"modified":"2019-05-22T07:27:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T07:27:04","slug":"udhampur-civil-society-protests-overcharging-at-ban-toll-plaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/udhampur-civil-society-protests-overcharging-at-ban-toll-plaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Udhampur civil society protests &#8216;overcharging&#8217; at Ban Toll Plaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scores of youth from Udhampur town under the banner of Civil Society Udhampur on Sunday held a peaceful sit-in against levying of \u2018extra road tax\u2019 on local vehicles. <\/p>\n<p>The protesting youth led by one Rohit Khajuria claimed that they are being forced to pay Rs 200 for a travel distance of 60 kilometer which is \u201cdiscriminative\u201d in nature as \u201cstate government has recently withdrawn an order that levied tax on vehicles in Kashmir Valley\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAren\u2019t we, the people of Udhampur, human being? Why we people are being made to pay extra tax and why not the people of Kashmir Valley even paying tax? In Jammu\u2019s Samba district, an under-construction toll plaza was vandalized to get rid of road tax. What this government wants us to do- damage public properties or resort to violence in our protests?\u201d said Rohit Khajuria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scores of youth from Udhampur town under the banner of Civil Society Udhampur on Sunday held a peaceful sit-in against levying of \u2018extra road tax\u2019 on local vehicles. The protesting youth led by one Rohit Khajuria claimed that they are being forced to pay Rs 200 for a travel distance of 60 kilometer which is \u201cdiscriminative\u201d in nature as \u201cstate government has recently withdrawn an order that levied tax on vehicles in Kashmir Valley\u201d. \u201cAren\u2019t we, the people of Udhampur, human being? Why we people are being made to pay extra tax and why not the people of Kashmir Valley [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,130,181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greater-kashmir","category-newspapers","category-roads-greater-kashmir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}