Toll barriers will be removed from the roads in a year: Nitin Gadkari in Parliament
Gadkari said that during the previous governments, tolls have been created in many places within urban areas which are 'wrong and unjust' and the work of removing them will be completed in a year.
The Weekly Mail Team 
Union Road Transport Minister and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari has said that all toll booths should be removed in the next one year and the toll amount will be deposited through GPS imaging. Gadkari said this in the Parliament on Thursday. He said, 'I assure the house that all the tolls will be removed within a year. This means that there will not be tolls, but there will be cameras which will cut money on your arrival and departure. Gadkari said that during the previous governments, tolls were created in many places within urban areas which are 'wrong and unjust' and the work of removing them will be completed in a year.
He said that the earlier tolls created within the cities will be removed in a year. There were a lot of 'thieves' in such tolls. The Union Minister said that now such a system will be installed in trains, with the help of which toll charges can be paid and after that such tolls will not be required inside the city. Gadkari said, "The work of removing such tolls from inside the cities will be completed in a year."
In response to another question, Gadkari said, "We do not allocate projects without acquiring 90 per cent of the land. A detailed project report (DPR) is prepared after the land is acquired. The Road Transport Minister said in response to a supplementary question of Deepak Badge that the green highway between Raipur to Visakhapatnam has been approved. Work has started He said that the work is likely to be completed in about one and a half years and this will benefit the people of many states.
