KD Desk
New Delhi : The Union Minister for Roads & Transport Nitin Gadkari on Thursday said in the Lower House that the government was working on a plan to remove all toll plazas in the next one year.
Replying to a query during Questioning Hour, Gadkari said that in the coming days, the people will have to pay toll in proportion to the distance travelled on the road toll adding that it will be done with the help of technology.
BSP MP from Kanwar, Danish Ali raised the issue of placing a toll plaza in the Municipal limits on the road near GarhMukteshwar. On this, Nitin Gadkari said that many toll plazas were built in the previous government, which are located on the border of the city.
“This is definitely wrong and unfair. Now if the toll plazas are removed, the road construction company will demand compensation,” he said.
“Now the government plans to eliminate all Toll Plazas in the country in the next one year” he claimed.
Union Minister said that elimination of toll means removal of toll plaza. He also mentioned that the government is working on a technology in which the camera will take a picture of a vehicle on the highway where the vehicle will ascend and will another picture of the place where it will get off the highway and only that much distance will be paid by the driver.
