Even as the collection of toll on the Bengaluru-Mysuru expressway began at Gananguru in Srirangapatna on Saturday amidst protests by locals and Kannada organisations, Home Minister G. Parameshwar and Agriculture Minister N. Cheluvarayaswamy came down against the Centre for National Highways Authority of India’s (NHAI) incomplete work of the highway.
Mr. Parameshwar and Mr. Cheluvarayaswamy, while speaking to reporters in Mysuru separately, expressed their disapproval of the NHAI’s decision to ignore the appeals for putting off collection of toll from motorists till all the pending works on the expressway were completed.
Mr. Parameshwar said Additional Director General of Police (Traffic and Road Safety) Alok Kumar, who had recently conducted an inspection of the expressway, had briefed him about the steps that needed to be taken by NHAI.
