{"id":513655,"date":"2022-08-11T12:18:15","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T06:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=513655"},"modified":"2022-08-11T13:46:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T08:16:55","slug":"toll-tax-scam-caused-rs-6000-crore-loss-aap-municipal-corporation-of-delhi-says-claims-baseless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/toll-tax-scam-caused-rs-6000-crore-loss-aap-municipal-corporation-of-delhi-says-claims-baseless\/","title":{"rendered":"Toll tax \u2018scam\u2019 caused Rs 6,000 crore loss: AAP; Municipal Corporation of Delhi says claims baseless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party on Tuesday alleged that a toll tax \u201cscam\u201d in Municipal Corporation of Delhi had caused a loss of around Rs 6,000 crore. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2017, BJP gave the tender to collect toll tax to MEP Infrastructure Development Ltd. for a fee of Rs 12 hundred crore annually. The company submitted the fee for the first year and afterwards, it stopped paying the money. From second year onwards, they used to pay 10-20% of the total amount due. However, MCD did not take any action against this company,\u201d claimed MLA Durgesh Pathak. <\/p>\n<p>MCD, however, termed the allegations as \u201cfalse\u201d and \u201cbaseless\u201d. \u201cIt is clarified by MCD that in 2017, the contract was awarded to the company for payment of Rs 1,206 crore per annum for a period of five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party on Tuesday alleged that a toll tax \u201cscam\u201d in Municipal Corporation of Delhi had caused a loss of around Rs 6,000 crore. \u201cIn 2017, BJP gave the tender to collect toll tax to MEP Infrastructure Development Ltd. for a fee of Rs 12 hundred crore annually. The company submitted the fee for the first year and afterwards, it stopped paying the money. From second year onwards, they used to pay 10-20% of the total amount due. However, MCD did not take any action against this company,\u201d claimed MLA Durgesh Pathak. MCD, however, termed the allegations [&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":[130,221,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-513655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513655","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=513655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}