KPCC media analyst P.H. Neeralakeri has alleged that the Dharwad district administration and Ministers were silent on ‘illegal’ toll collection on the Hubballi-Gadag section of the Ankola-Gooty national highway (No. 63) and has set a 15-day deadline to stop the toll collection.
Addressing presspersons in Hubballi, along with Congress leader Rajat Ullagaddimath and others on Friday, Mr. Neeralakeri said that all norms pertaining to beginning toll collection on the national highway had been violated and the officials and Ministers, both State and Central, were silent over it.
Taking example of his own travel on the road stretch, during which he had to pay ₹175 for a travel of around 17 kilometres between villages, Mr. Neeralakeri wondered how the district administration could allow toll collection on the road, when there were no service roads for the villages located all along the national highway.
