The Maharashtra Cabinet's decision will be implemented from midnight on Monday. CM Eknath Shinde made the announcement after the meeting.
The change in toll fee is part of an annual exercise to revise the rates that are linked to the changes in the wholesale price index based inflation. The annual revision of toll hikes was to come into effect on April 1 for most of tolled highways and expressways stretch across the country.
Raj Thackeray, accompanied by party workers, ordered the toll booth to open, allowing vehicles, including an ambulance, to pass without toll charges. In a video, he issued a stern warning to toll booth workers, threatening MNS-style intervention with bamboo if improvements weren't made.
MNS chief Raj Thackeray warned the government to launch agitation against the toll booths in Maharashtra. He called toll charges the biggest scam in the state. Thackeray alleged that some politicians get commissions from the toll booth owners.
Videos posted on social media showed some of the vehicles involved in the accident engulfed in flames, while others near toll booth were completely destroyed.
The minister said he has instructed police inquiry for those vehicles which do not pay toll using FASTags
Union minister Nitin Gadkari Tuesday said people have to pay toll if they want good roads, making it clear that the toll system would stay as the government does not have enough funds. Replying to a discussion on demands for grants for the Road Transport and Highways ministry in the Lok Sabha, he said the government built 40,000 kilometres of highway in the last five years.
The victim, Ashok Kumar, is employed with the Kherki Daula Toll Plaza of Delhi-Gurugram Expressway.
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