The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Friday allowed the Delhi-Gurgaon expressway concessionaire to begin collecting toll tax from motorists, except during three peak traffic hours of the day.
Relaxing its earlier order dated 4 September, when the concessionaire had been barred from collecting the toll tax, a Division Bench of Justices Satish Kumar Mittal and Inderjit Singh, however, ordered that no toll would be charged from 8.30-10 am and from 5.30-7 pm every day.
The orders is to come into force from 7 pm onwards today and will remain in force till 3 October, when the court will again take up the case.
Hearing the case today, the court pulled up Delhi Gurgaon Super Connectivity Limited [DGSCL], the concessionaire, for failing to find a solution to traffic chaos on the expressway.
‘You take decisions 100 times. What immediate steps are you taking tomorrow to bring relief to the commuters?’ it asked.
The Delhi Municipal Corporation had earlier moved the court requesting permission for collection of toll tax from the commercial vehicles.
It had insisted that these vehicles were entering Delhi from Gurgaon side to avoid toll tax, resulting in more rush on the expressway and thus affecting the traffic even inside Delhi.
On 4 September, the court had restrained the concessionaire from collecting toll tax after it found that the company had failed to find a solution to the traffic chaos during collection of the same.
GURGAON METRO TO BE EXTENDED
The Haryana government on Friday approved the extension of the metro link from Sikanderpur station to Sector 56, Gurgaon. This project will have the route length of 6.5 kms. with the project cost of Rs 2,143 crore and will run from Sikanderpur station to sector 56, Gurgaon. This project is likely to be commissioned within a period of 3 years, an official spokesman said. The approval was granted by the state cabinet, which met under the chairmanship of chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda. It will make commuting easier for lakhs of people living on the south side of Gurgaon and will further strengthen the Mass Rapid Transport Infrastructure in Gurgaon. This project will be a boon to the existing Metro Rail Project being developed in the Cyber City of Gurgaon, the trial runs of which will take place on 2 October 2012, in the presence of the Haryana chief minister. This project has the provision of further extension of Metro Rail towards old Gurgaon across National Highway, which will also be taken up subsequently for the benefit of residents of Gurgaon living on the north side of Gurgaon, the spokesman said.
M/s IL and FS Rail Limited will implement this project under the PPP Model and entire cost of the project will be borne by M/s IL and FS Rail Limited. The Haryana government will provide ROW on lease hold basis.
Relaxing its earlier order dated 4 September, when the concessionaire had been barred from collecting the toll tax, a Division Bench of Justices Satish Kumar Mittal and Inderjit Singh, however, ordered that no toll would be charged from 8.30-10 am and from 5.30-7 pm every day.
The orders is to come into force from 7 pm onwards today and will remain in force till 3 October, when the court will again take up the case.
Hearing the case today, the court pulled up Delhi Gurgaon Super Connectivity Limited [DGSCL], the concessionaire, for failing to find a solution to traffic chaos on the expressway.
‘You take decisions 100 times. What immediate steps are you taking tomorrow to bring relief to the commuters?’ it asked.
The Delhi Municipal Corporation had earlier moved the court requesting permission for collection of toll tax from the commercial vehicles.
It had insisted that these vehicles were entering Delhi from Gurgaon side to avoid toll tax, resulting in more rush on the expressway and thus affecting the traffic even inside Delhi.
On 4 September, the court had restrained the concessionaire from collecting toll tax after it found that the company had failed to find a solution to the traffic chaos during collection of the same.
GURGAON METRO TO BE EXTENDED
The Haryana government on Friday approved the extension of the metro link from Sikanderpur station to Sector 56, Gurgaon. This project will have the route length of 6.5 kms. with the project cost of Rs 2,143 crore and will run from Sikanderpur station to sector 56, Gurgaon. This project is likely to be commissioned within a period of 3 years, an official spokesman said. The approval was granted by the state cabinet, which met under the chairmanship of chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda. It will make commuting easier for lakhs of people living on the south side of Gurgaon and will further strengthen the Mass Rapid Transport Infrastructure in Gurgaon. This project will be a boon to the existing Metro Rail Project being developed in the Cyber City of Gurgaon, the trial runs of which will take place on 2 October 2012, in the presence of the Haryana chief minister. This project has the provision of further extension of Metro Rail towards old Gurgaon across National Highway, which will also be taken up subsequently for the benefit of residents of Gurgaon living on the north side of Gurgaon, the spokesman said.
M/s IL and FS Rail Limited will implement this project under the PPP Model and entire cost of the project will be borne by M/s IL and FS Rail Limited. The Haryana government will provide ROW on lease hold basis.