An indefinite strike was started by Madanagundi Toll Plaza Sangharsh Samiti of Koderma on Monday. Their demand is that local trains should be made toll free. During this period, former MLAs of Barhi Assembly and Barkatha Assembly Umashankar Akela and Janaki Yadav were mainly present.
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The main demands of the people in this protest include freeing of all types of local vehicles, giving jobs to 75% of the local people at toll and service roads on both sides near the toll plaza. Former Barhi assembly MLA Umashankar Yadav Akela, who was protesting, said that we had opposed it since the time this toll was being constructed.
Due to some local brokers, the construction of this toll was supported here and some of their people got jobs by them. We demand that if all types of local vehicles are not made toll free soon, there will be violent agitation.
Made free pass for 900 local vehicles: Toll Manager Here, Toll Manager Ranjan Yadav said that as per the rules of NHAI, there is a provision to make a monthly pass of Rs 340 for all the vehicles within an interval of 20 kilometers. Still, we are not charging any kind of fee from local vehicles. He said that apart from this, till now we have made free passes for a total of 900 local vehicles. Regarding commercial vehicles, he said that there is no provision in the provisions of NHAI to give any kind of exemption to commercial vehicles.