Diphu : If all goes well Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council will obtain a substantial amount of payment from the National Highway Authority in the form of Forest royalty which may exceed fifty crore very shortly.

Disclosing this, Secretary to the Chief Executive Member of Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council Mukul Kathar told this correspondent that earlier the council authority received an inadequate amount of royalty based on surreptitious approximation, but things have changed now.

Mukul Kathar held that, under the new conformity the Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council’s Forest department will receive a six percent levy on the estimated amount of construction of National highway lying on the utilized government land within the control of the council’s geographical limit.

The agreed proportion of levy or royalty is not as per Assam government’s standard; whose prescribed limit is nine percent. However the volume of the levy may increase with the spreading out of the national highway network through Karbi Anglong and West Karbi Anglong districts in the days to come.

As of now the council’s exchequer will receive around fifty four crore rupees from the National Highway authority against utilization of land resource for construction of highways through this autonomous district.