Jamshedpur: Traveling on NH33 to get costlier as NHAI proposes toll tax collection at two new plazas

Mail News Service

Jamshedpur, May 25: Traveling on the National Highway 33 is set to become costlier in the coming days as National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) authorities have proposed to start collecting toll tax at two new toll plazas between Jamshedpur and Baharagora.

Sources said the NHAI has written to the Union Road Transport and Highways Ministry proposing to start collecting up toll plazas at Putru and Pata near Chandil from 1^st June. Putru Toll Plaza is 48 km away from Pata toll plaza. So far toll tax is collected at Kokpara toll plaza between Jamshedpur and Baharagora and Bundu toll plaza, sources said.

It may be mentioned here that Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari had announced in the Lok Sabha that people will not have to pay toll tax on toll roads before a distance of 60 km.

According to Colonel AS Kapoor, Project Director, NHAI Jamshedpur, “Toll plazas have been built in Putru and Pata. Only some road construction work is left which would be completed before 1^st June. The NHAI headquarters has sent a proposal for collecting road tax to the Road Transport and Highways Ministry.”