How will Govt build expressways without taxes, is commonest refrain to justify squeezing taxpayers further as if these ventures are welfare schemes of govt. No. If built using taxpayers' money these would have been toll free.
Facilitating public by building roads and expressways is inherent actions for development and no one denies that, but for private firms who contract to build these highways, the real motive behind this disguised facilitation is always business. The fact is the expressways are business ventures being built to earn profits for private firms, for which they collect tolls. The thousands of crores which private firm invest on these roads are borrowed from public banking institutes funded by public. Why will a private firm undertake to be part of these ventures if not for any profit?
Besides tolls, manyfold collateral gains accrue on secondary townships and facility developments along the route which are most of the times real but surreptitiously hidden treasures for these firms and for govt too.
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