Assam government today announced to shut down all inter-state check gates from next month, a step aimed at reducing transportation cost of essential items coming from other states. "The government has taken an in-principle decision to shut down all check gates along the inter-state borders. "Some departments like Excise, Transport or for that matter even the Agriculture Marketing Board will have to bear major losses in terms of revenue," Sarma said. "We will have to device some policy to give some sort of compensation to these departments like the marketing board. The Assam State Agricultural Marketing Board is heavily dependent on the check gates for its cess collection.

Source: dna July 16, 2017 14:15 UTC