Petition in SC Seeks removal of MCD toll collection points at Delhi borders, ET Infra
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The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has approached Supreme Court seeking removal of the physical entry booths set up by Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) for collection of entry fee and green charge from commercial vehicles (CVs) at inter-state borders.The highway authority filed the application in the pending M C Mehta case in which the apex court has been monitoring the pollution crisis in National Capital Region and has been passing orders since the 1980s. The NHAI, in its application, TOI has learnt, submitted to SC that huge investments made in highway development to improve connectivity to Delhi have not yielded the desired results because of congestion caused at the borders by toll collection points Officials said NHAI has mentioned the several projects executed across NCR, including the Eastern Peripheral Expressway and Western Peripheral Expressway, which were built as bypasses for vehicles not destined for Delhi. These two projects were implemented following SC directives.The officials highlighted that since collection of Environment Compensation Charge (ECC) from vehicles was started in compliance with an SC order, only the apex court could take a call on the matter.The NHAI has approached the apex court soon after Union road transport minister Nitin Gadkari chaired a meeting on decongestion of Delhi with Delhi Lt Governor V K Saxena, chief minister Rekha Gupta and other ministers. Gadkari had asked Delhi govt and MCD officials to work out a plan to do away with physical toll collection points, which are a source of daily "harassment" for lakhs of commuters.He also suggested that Delhi govt should find new sources of revenue, in place of collecting entry fee and ECC on national highways, including at Sirhaul, Ghazipur, Badarpur, Tikri and Kundli, with the toll collection points being a primary cause of congestion."Even before we start collecting toll for highways built with huge investments, such as Dwarka Expressway and UER-II, MCD has started putting up barriers to collect entry fee from CVs. What is the use of such highways if people have to face traffic jams owing to the inefficiency of the municipal body?" an official wondered.Earlier this month, top officials of Delhi govt, MCD and NHAI had agreed to have a multi-lane free flow toll and entry fee collection system to do away with physical booths. In the MLFF system, vehicles don't need to stop as overhead cameras installed for each lane will read the vehicle registration numbers and automatically deduct the toll from FASTag wallets linked to vehicles.
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