Farmers Protests: NHAI-run toll plazas near Haryana-Rajasthan border affected adversely

NewsBharati    13-Feb-2021
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Jaipur, Feb 13: After Samyukt Kisan Morcha’s planned to make plazas toll-free in support of the farmers agitation, the toll plazas near the Haryana-Rajasthan border were affected adversely.
 
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The protesting farmers' unions on Wednesday had announced a series of events that they have planned to take up to highlight their demands. They had said that they will close all toll plazas in Rajasthan and make them free from 12 February, said Samyukta Kisan Morcha leader Darshan Pal. Nearly a month ago, farmers had stopped toll collection at Hanumangarh, Ganganagar, and Bikaner in the state.
 
Rahul Gandhi, who is on two-day visit, too, supported this propaganda in Congress-ruled state. However, due to this, public funded toll plazas at highways are facing severe losses. According to NHAI, there are 631 toll plaza across India, over Rs 94 crores are collected in one day.
 
Even, in a written response to a question in the Lok Sabha by BJP MP PC Gaddigouda, Union transport minister Nitin Gadkari said, "Due to farmers’ protest, some of the fee plazas are non-operational, thereby the NHAI is unable to collect user fee from the road users. In case of public funded fee plazas, an estimated remittance loss is approximately Rs 1.8 crore per day."
 
Vaibhav Dange, experts believe that it is not only a loss for the Centre but also for people
 
 
Among the few toll plazas that have been hit badly are - on Suratgarh-Ganganagar section of NH-62 (Ganganagar), Salasar on Bikaner-Phalodi section of NH-11 (Bikaner), Nokhra on Bikaner-Phalodi section of NH-11 (Bikaner), Kheerwa on Bikaner-Phalodi section of NH-11 (Jodhpur), Akhepura on Reengus-Sikar section of NH-52 (Sikar), Lasedi on state border-Fatehpur section of NH-52 and 58 (Churu), Shobhasar on state border-Fatehpur Salasar section of NH-52 and 58 (Churu).