QUETTA: Provincial Minister for Excise, Taxation and Narcotics Control Department Mukesh Kumar Chawla on Tuesday directed a road checking campaign to collect tax from defaulting vehicles.

On the first day of the road checking campaign, a total of 3,824 vehicles were checked across the province. According to the detail, 1,232 vehicles were checked in Karachi, 888 in Hyderabad and 520 in Sukkur while 591 in Larkana, 423 in Mirpurkhas and 170 in Shaheed Benazirabad. During the road checking campaign, 227 vehicles were seized for various reasons while papers of 365 vehicles were also confiscated.

On the first day, a total tax of about Rs24 lakhs was collected. Meanwhile, Provincial Minister for Excise, Taxation and Narcotics Control Department Mukesh Kumar Chawla, in a statement, has said that the road checking campaign of Sindh Excise Department to collect tax from the owners of tax defaulting vehicles would continue till June 3. Therefore, the owners of tax defaulting vehicles should deposit their taxes to avoid any untoward situation.