Gurugram toll plaza to go soon: Khattar

Sumedha Sharma

Tribune News Service

Gurugram, January 22

“The removal of the Kherki Daula toll is our top priority and the government is negotiating with the operator company to do away with it completely. As a backup, we are mulling shifting it and has identified a piece of land for the purpose. In both situations, the toll will surely go,” said Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar. He was in the city today to inaugurate two new underpasses at the Signature tower and Rajiv Chowk. Khattar said that the government was focusing on infrastructure upgrade and all under-construction underpasses in the millennium city would be completed by March 31.

“We understand that construction activities are causing inconvenience to people but long-awaited infrastructure upgrade of the millennium city is under way. We will complete underpasses by March 31 and they will prove to be a great tool in dealing with traffic congestion here. We are already working in areas such as Rajiv Chowk and Iffco Chowk to solve traffic bottlenecks there,” added Khattar.

On the issue of increasing crime against women, Khattar said that the government had pulled up law and order enforcement agencies and was considering punishments too to make Haryana a state that does not tolerate crime against women.

“Haryana is all set to mandate the death penalty for rape where victims are below 12 years of age. We will bring the Bill in the next Vidhan Sabha session and lay the foundation of deterrents against this heinous crime,” he said.

Politics over infra projects 

Of late, there have been talks of Central minister and Gurugram MP Rao Inder Jeet Singh fighting it out at the Central level to get projects and grants for Gurugram while the state government hogged the limelight. The Chief Minister was visibly baffled by the reports that Rao Inderjeet was giving the credit for infrastructure development in Gurugram, including two underpasses inaugurated on Monday, to the Central government. The Chief Minister said that these were administrative technicalities and should not be made subject of politics.