The comptroller and auditor general (CAG) of India has rapped the Maharashtra government for the continuation of collection of one per cent cess on petrol and three per cent on diesel in Mumbai and adjoining towns despite the recovery of cost of construction of 37 flyovers in Greater Mumbai in November 2010 with the securitised amount of Rs 2,100 crore.

CAG has observed that the excess cess burden on the public was therefore financially not justified. CAG's scathing remarks in its report for the year ended March 31, 2015, come at a time when the chorus is rising for the exempting ...