Chennai: The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) can collect only 50% of the toll from vehicles at two plazas on the Maduravoyal-Ranipet section on Chennai-Bengaluru route till March 11, as the Madras high court has refused to vacate its interim orders to that effect.
\nRejecting the NHAI plea, a division bench of Justice M Sathyanarayanan and Justice A A Nakkiran said, \u201cFor the past 13 years, the stretch of the highway has not been re-laid and only patch work done,\u201d and extended the stay till March 11.
\nIt was on December 13, 2020 that the bench ordered NHAI to collect only 50% in view of bad road conditions on the stretch for years together. As the order was for two weeks, the NHAI started collecting full toll after two-week period.
\nOn Friday, however, the judges extended the 50% toll-only order till March 11, and pointed out that even lights and road markings have not been provided in the stretch. They said: \u201cDo you (NHAI) mean to say people must travel in the stretch only when the sun is out? It is your (NHAI) consistent stand that you will not re-lay the road since expansion of the stretch into 6-lane is in progress. But we cannot accept such a stand.\u201d
\nEarlier, filing a status report on behalf of NHAI, assistant solicitor-general of India G Karthikeyan said, \u201cimmediate action is being taken to close potholes and undertake repair\/renewal works without any delay.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Chennai: The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) can collect only 50% of the toll from vehicles at two plazas on the Maduravoyal-Ranipet section on Chennai-Bengaluru route till March 11, as the Madras high court has refused to vacate its interim orders to that effect. Rejecting the NHAI plea, a division bench of Justice M Sathyanarayanan and Justice A A Nakkiran said, \u201cFor the past 13 years, the stretch of the highway has not been re-laid and only patch work done,\u201d and extended the stay till March 11. It was on December 13, 2020 that the bench ordered NHAI to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,221,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397047","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}