"These amendments are aimed at improving user fee compliance, enhancing efficiency of Electronic Toll Collection and discouraging user fee evasion on National Highways," Ministry of Road Transport and Highways said on Tuesday.
The Palam 360 chief said the movement of the villagers, which was put on hold for a couple of days after the Mahapanchayat on September 21, will now resume and further intensify to push for the interest of the villagers.
Anger among villagers in Delhi’s rural belt over the Urban Extension Road-2 (UER-2) toll tax is intensifying even as a panchayat of 360 villages held in Bindapur on Sunday decided to intensify the protest.
The proceedings at the panchayat were presided over by Chaudhary Surendra Solanki, head of the Palam 360 villages, in the presence of Karala (17), Pradhan Samundar Singh Tikri (5), Pachgaon Pradhan Anar Singh, Surendra Dabas, Naresh Lakra, Dharmendra Bakkarwala, Rajinder Pradhan, and Moolchand Sahrawat.
Those who adopt ways to avoid toll tax will be brought under the purview of this law.
The toll is being levied before completion of construction work and major part of the construction work of flyover and its underpass at Kumarhatti, Saproon and Timber Trail Resort at Parwanoo are not complete and will take months or may be a year or more to be completed.
Widespread extortion and diversion of development funds form the core agenda of insurgent groups in the North-east.
The district is preparing to initiate legal action against those 15 offender Panchayats, the officials said. The DM, Burdwan (East), Vijay Bharti said: “The matter was discussed at length at a district level meeting yesterday where senior officials with district Panchayat department participated.”
The toll plaza, set up on May 7, has been collecting toll tax from every vehicle using the highway except those of security forces, ambulances, funeral vans, fire services and vehicles used by VIPs.
Private vehicles will be exempted from toll tax on state highways in Rajasthan from Sunday, state transport minister Yunus Khan…
