Raipur,
May 08, 2013
Congress business cell on Wednesday hailed Supreme Court notice to National
Highway Authority of India (NHAI), Chhattisgarh government, state’s public
works department (PWD) and DS Construction on toll plaza issue.
The
cell’s president Kanhaiyya Agrawal informed that a petition had been filed by
him, Nishchay Bajpayee and Ashok Shivhare in the apex court regarding shifting
of toll plaza from Ring Road No 1 near Sundar Nagar at Raipur.
The
cell, along with locals, has been protesting toll plaza construction at the
current selected site for the past several months.
In
this connection, the cell members have gheraoed NHAI and DS Construction – the
implementing agency hired by NHAI to construct fourlane road from Tatibandh to
Arang several times in the past.
The
cell wants the toll plaza to be shifted outside Raipur’s municipal limits. The cell says
existing toll plaza site is illegal and against the highway construction norms.
The
cell alleges that considering heavy traffic flow at Ring Road No 1 and several residential
colonies being developed in either side of the fourlane road, the DS
Construction wanted to build toll plaza near Sundar Nagar to earn additional
profit by charging toll on local motorists.
Earlier,
the implementing agency had selected toll plaza site near Sarona but was
compelled to cancel the location due to massive protest of locals and
interference of local MLA and housing and environment minister Rajesh Munat.
The
DS Construction then picked the site near Deendayal Upadhyay Nagar at Ring Road
No 1. However, it had to buckle down before the public protest again.
The
cell intensified its protest movement when the implementing agency selected
toll plaza site near Sundar Nagar. In this connection, the cell had also
submitted memorandum to chief secretary Sunil Kumar who too said that toll
plaza should be out of city limits.
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