Aam Admi Party (AAP) has alleged that Jay Ambe company, which is conducting the 108 services in Madhya Pradesh has committed a major fraud in ambulance operation in the form of evasion of tax in vehicle registration. As per the rules, the vehicles should be registered in the same state where they are operating, at least after six month on reaching the State.
According to the Transport Act, 10 percent of the cost of the vehicle is deposited in the form of tax in the registration of ambulance, District vice-president of AAP alleged.
In this present case all the registrations of vehicles are done by the company in Chhattisgarh and Central Tax was evaded of the state government, as per the rules of the transport department, no vehicle coming from other states can be driven in the state border for more than 6 months.
Bhopal Transport Commissioner Mukesh Jain said that he would have to check details regarding time period for which specified vehicles would ply on the roads of state and at present he did not have any information regarding vehicles which have been registered with other states and would operate in Madhya Pradesh. He added, information has to be checked as without which he would not be able to provide details of matter.
A total of 1292 ambulances are being operated in Madhya Pradesh in which around 800 are new and the rest are old. The state has incurred losses on two fronts one is RTO tax and along with the sale of vehicles to the state, there has also been a lot of loss of GST.
The fleet operator should bring NOC from Chhattisgarh and state share tax be made. There was a loss to the state of around Rs 4 on every vehicle.