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The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) connected Monday staged a protestation to request the closure of each toll plazas crossed the Capital, claiming that idle vehicles astatine the sites were adding to the rising contamination levels.
The protest, which was held astatine the Ghazipur Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) toll plaza, was led by Leader of the Opposition successful the MCD House, Ankush Narang. AAP accused the BJP-led MCD of ignoring Supreme Court directions related to toll operations during mediocre aerial quality.
Sharing a video of agelong car queues astatine the Ghazipur toll plaza, AAP Delhi president Saurabh Bharadwaj said that toll plazas had go contamination hotspots and questioned wherefore the MCD and the Delhi government, some led by the BJP, had not unopen them down.
Mayor’s clarification
Responding to the allegations, Delhi Mayor Raja Iqbal Singh said the Supreme Court had not passed an bid to adjacent toll plazas but had directed the MCD to temporarily suspend operations.
The MCD has submitted an affidavit to the Supreme Court outlining the steps taken truthful far, the Mayor added.
Mr. Singh besides said the MCD is moving towards barrier-free toll postulation done a Multi-Lane Free Flow strategy utilizing Automatic Number Plate Recognition and RFID technology. He said tenders for the task are being issued and the strategy volition assistance trim congestion and emissions astatine toll points.
He accused AAP of trying to confuse radical and added that the AAP authorities had not taken immoderate effectual enactment connected the contented erstwhile it was successful power.
