Three legislators from Mandya have sought Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s intervention to stop collection of toll on the Bengaluru-Mysuru Expressway at Gananguru in Srirangapatna scheduled to begin from July 1 till all pending works of the project are completed.
Congress MLC Dinesh Gooli Gowda and MLAs representing Mandya and Srirangapatna Assembly constituencies viz P. Ravi Kumar and Ramesh Bandisidde Gowda respectively, who have taken up the cudgels against National Highways Authority of India’s (NHAI) decision to start collecting toll in Srirangapatna, have also written letters in the regard to Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari and Additional Chief Secretary of Public Works Department, Government of Karnataka.
The Congress legislators have pointed out that collection of toll at Gananguru in Srirangapatna will ‘over-burden’ motorists, who are already facing financial problems due to inflation. The 10-lane expressway between Bengaluru and Mysuru, which was inaugurated in March this year, may have eased the travel hours, but the motorists are forced to cough up a huge sum of money in the form of toll, the letter said.
