The Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI) (Communist) staged demonstration here and submitted a memorandum addressed to the Housing and Urban Development Department (H and UD) Minister, demanding withdrawal of the proposal to collect users’ fee.
The SUCI stated the proposal to collect users’ fees in 23 categories, including house, apartment, shop, market, hospital, hotel, school , college, bus stand, railway station in Cuttack, Sambalpur, Rourkela and Brahmapur is anti-people.
The Central Government’s and the State Government’s anti-people tax policies while have broken the financial backbone of the common mass, the forcible collection of user’s fee would add to their plight.
The SUCI (C) warned to intensify the agitation if the Government did not roll back the proposal soon.
Among others, Madhusudan Das, Shiv Prasad Reddy, Sibani Sankar Mishra, Pupun Sahu and Tirupati Dora were present.