Road tax Cars ,buses, two wheeler s,etc all pay compulsory road tax, but the tax paid does not seem to be put to better the condition of motor able roads One wonders where all the collection even in advance goes. what is the deficit or the balance. There is never public accountability on this account. The citizens simply accept their fate to inherit the hopeless condition of roads with individual murmurs.The road users are subjected to accidents.disabilities, death due to fault of the Govt. obligation to maintain them There are no public interest litigation against such pathetic and dangerous conditions of roads There is indiscriminate digging of roads even during the monsoon season ,much against the Govt,directives, but who cares? The Govt builds bridges and then charges tax for it, even after the expenditure is recovered many times over. It is been legally settled that a bridge is but a part of the road and users pay for the road tax. In Goa the so called major district road is labelled as the National Highway, which people have been using for long and wants to convert into 4/6/lanes. The acquisition from people affected by it as at a pittance and more than that the people are threatened to be displaced permanently from their roots and professions. The argument of the Central Govt /NHAI is that they always collect toll from the users. IN that case the NHAI should build new 4/6/lane roads to charge toll. People who want to use the special highway of speed should bear the toll charges Labeling existing MDR as NH with expansion and asking regular users to pay toll besides the normal road tax amounts to double taxation Expanding the logic of development further, every time the road surfacing or improvement is done to the existing roads, the authorities should call for imposition of more taxes The Goa Govt. in resisting the 4/6/laning without charging toll from regular users is a sound decision Goa with its limited area does not need any 4/6/ laning of roads for National connectivity and can easily divert it to the boudaries of the state with Karnataka and Maharshtra The proposal by Regional committee was apt .sensible and feasible deserving studied consideration and which has been totally ignored Hence toll can be charged if people want to use the specialy constructed Highway and not from the regular users of MDR. Nelson Lopes Chinchinim 9850926276