Chief Secretary RS Sharma visited Chordaha village of Chauparan block on Saturday which is situated at border of Jharkhand and Bihar. At Chordaha, he inspected the construction work of check-post for the collection of taxes at NH-2. After visiting the spot and conducting the inspection he informed that this check-post will become functional by the end of January or from the first week of February.
The Chief Secretary said that it will be a composite check post where the officers of sales tax, excise, transport, mining and other departments will be on duty.
The check post will be fully computerised and loaded with software which will immediately give all the required information about the item being transported by loading the registration number of the vehicle.
If the computer will show everything genuine then that vehicle can pass the check post through the green channel and if there will be some problem then the officers will help the transporters and drivers to rectify the errors. The check post will be operative 24x7.
During this visit of Chief Secretary the Principal Secretary of PWD Rajbala Verma, Secretary of Sales Tax department MR Meena were also present.
The Chief Secretary was received there by Commissioner North Chotanagpur division Surendra Singh, DC Sunil Kumar, AC Ranjan Choudhary, SDO Barhi, Trainee IAS Harshika Singh and other officials of Hazaribagh district.