NEW DELHI, March 23: The Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday announced that all toll collection booths, which are active within 60 kilometre distance of any other toll booth, will be shut down in the next three months.
Gadkari made this announcement at the Lok Sabha while replying on the Demands for Grants for Road Transport and Highways Ministry for 2022-23. The Union Minister said there aren’t supposed to be any toll collection points within 60 kilometres of two toll booths on the National Highways. However, there are such toll booths that are currently active, and Gadkari said all these illegal toll points would be shut down.
Talking about these toll booths, Gadkari said, “What’s happening is wrong and illegal. I assure you that within the next three months, within 60 km, there will be only one toll collection point, if there’s a second one, we will shut it down. Just because we (government) get money from them, doesn’t mean people should suffer.”
(Manas Dasgupta)
