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Proceedings of the Legislative Council of the United Provinces. Thursday 20th April 1939. Official Report

1939

But the House should confine itself for the moment to our needs in respect of the development of roads and I say that a tax which is derived from the use of roads is justifiable if the proceeds go towards the betterment of roads. [...] Therefore I wish to make au inquiry from the Hon'ble Minister whether this amount of money that is to be collected from the proceeds of petrol tax is to be spent by Public Works Department of the Goverment on Os Public Works Department roads or whether any proportionate share of this money is going to be given to the local bodies as the codition of the roads of district boards is worse than [...] But now that the purpose for which this money is wanted is a very necessary purpose and as on account of the increase in.the cane cultivation and on account of the installation of a number of sugar mills it becomes necessary that easy traffic ba provided for the purpose of bringing sugarcane from the interior of the villages the construction and improvement of the roads is a necessity. [...] In the Punjab which is contiguous to our province the price of petrol is the same as in the United Provinces and the roads in the Punjab are somewhat better than they are hare. [...] The Hon'ble the Minister of Justice : The intention is that the Provincial Government should have the power and should exercise it not in every case but iu specific cases but may I suggest that it would have the same result if the amendment is accepted because the Provincial Government may make the same rule in exactly the same language.
government politics public policy
Pages
40
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100003
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-i unknown view
Legislatfve Council United Provinces
635-668 unknown view
Appendix
669-673 unknown view