{"id":304891,"date":"2019-12-10T11:24:43","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T05:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=304891"},"modified":"2019-12-10T11:24:43","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T05:54:43","slug":"authorities-cant-collect-toll-fee-on-incomplete-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/authorities-cant-collect-toll-fee-on-incomplete-highway\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Authorities can\u2019t collect toll fee on incomplete highway\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: The Karnataka High Court on Monday restrained authorities from collecting toll from vehicles plying on Bengaluru-Doddaballapura state highway.  <\/p>\n<p>The division bench of Justice Ravi Malimath and Justice M Nagaprasanna passed the interim order restraining Aarvee Associates Architects Engineers Consultants Private Limited from collecting toll after hearing two separate public interest litigations.  <\/p>\n<p>One of the petitioners contended that only 40 to 50 percent of work taken up for improving the highway, was completed. About 80,000 vehicles are plying every day on the highway. \u201cToll is being collected even before the completion of the work for the past 15 months,\u201d he said. He explained that collecting toll before completion of full work is illegal, as per the agreement entered into by the consultants with the Karnataka Road Development Corporation Limited (KRDCL). \u201cEven the BMTC is collecting additional charges from passengers towards payment of toll for the buses using this highway,\u201d he claimed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: The Karnataka High Court on Monday restrained authorities from collecting toll from vehicles plying on Bengaluru-Doddaballapura state highway. The division bench of Justice Ravi Malimath and Justice M Nagaprasanna passed the interim order restraining Aarvee Associates Architects Engineers Consultants Private Limited from collecting toll after hearing two separate public interest litigations. One of the petitioners contended that only 40 to 50 percent of work taken up for improving the highway, was completed. About 80,000 vehicles are plying every day on the highway. \u201cToll is being collected even before the completion of the work for the past 15 months,\u201d he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,209,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}