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Toll: `exemption for two-wheelers being looked into'

By Our Staff Reporter

PATHANAMTHITTA FEB. 28. The Minister for Public Works, M. K. Muneer, said the proposal to exempt two-wheelers from toll payment on roads in different parts of the State was under the serious consideration of the Government.

The Minister was inaugurating the newly constructed bridge at Nalkalickal near Aranmula on the Aranmla-Kulanada Road this afternoon.

Mr. Muneer said that it needed the enactment of legislation for exempting two-wheelers from payment toll. He said that the bridge at Nalakalickal had been constructed at a cost of Rs. 178 lakhs and the Public Works Department had already given Rs. 13 lakhs to the Revenue Department for completing the formalities for acquisition of land for the approach road of the bridge.

The Minister said the Government would take a decision on the proposed toll collection from vehicles on the Nalkalickal bridge once the approach road of the bridge was completed. He said that the development of the Mannarakulanji Road with Malaysian financial assistance was under the serious consideration of the Government.

The local MLA, Malethu Saraladevi, presided over the inaugural function. The District Collector, P. S. Enos, Ramesh Chennithala, MP, district panchayat member Pandalam Sivankutty, the BJP district president, V. N. Unni, the IUML district president, K. E. Abdul Rahman, the PWD Superintending Engineer Muraleedharan also addressed the function.

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