Tamil Nadu to close down 32 toll plazas: Highways minister
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai:03.09.2021
The Tamil Nadu government would close down 32 toll plazas on the national highways, said state PWD and highways minister E V Velu in the assembly on Thursday. The number of toll plazas on NHs would come down from 48 to 16, he said.
In neighbouring Kerala, the number of toll plazas has been reduced to three as per the provisions of the National Highways Fee (Determination of Rates and Collection) Rules 2008. In Tamil Nadu, there should be only 16 toll plazas as per the rule. (The rule says there should be a minimum distance of 60 km between two plazas. However, there are 48 toll plazas in Tamil Nadu at present and 27 of them violate this rule). He was replying to a calling attention motion moved by M H Jawahirullah of MMK on the hike in toll fee.
The sub-section of the rule also says there should not be any toll plaza within 10 km radius of corporations and municipalities. There are five toll plazas – Nemili near Sriperumbudur, Chennasamudram, Vanagaram, Paranur near Chengelpet and Surapattu - that violate this sub-section, he said and added that as per CM M K Stalin’s instruction, action was being taken to close them down.
“We have already communicated this to the Union ministry for road transport and highways. After the assembly session, I will go in person and meet Union minister Nitin Gadkari and insist on closing down the five toll plazas,” said Velu.
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