The Tamil Nadu Road Development Company (TNRDC) has stopped collecting user fee from four toll plazas on the East Coast Road (ECR) from Mamallapuram to Puducherry. Toll collection was stopped since the midnight of Wednesday. This follows the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) taking over the 85-km stretch for widening.
Tolls at Hanumanthai near Puducherry, near Sadras (two of them) and one near Mamallapuram are no longer operational. These tolls used to collect close to ₹5 lakh a day, which amounted to around 50% of toll collected by the TNRDC on this road. Plazas at Uthandi and Kovalam will however remain.
