Toll plaza on Delhi-Gurgaon highway may be removed

The toll plaza between Delhi and Gurgaon on the national highway is likely to be removed. The toll plaza has become contentious as users had to wait for long, resulting in traffic block. This also led to an intervention by the Punjab High Court last year. This was one of the options discussed in a meeting held between Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and the Union Road Transport Minister CP Joshi in Delhi recently.

Now, NHAI has given a termination notice to the toll road developer DSC. The developer is contesting it in the Delhi High Court. IDFC, the lender to the project, has also opposed the termination notice. Though the developer and the lender are opposing the termination notice, they are not actually on the same pitch, as IDFC claimed that the developer was not co-operating with it, when it wanted to take over the project.

In the last court hearing, IDFC had given a proposal that it would like to operate the stretch and shift toll plazas farther from New Delhi and Gurgaon.