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Toll on vehicles using the Rajiv Gandhi Salai are to be hiked with effect from July 1.
According to an official press release the revised rates will be effective for two years.
The tolls for three-wheelers have largely been untouched. The rates have been hiked for all other categories of vehicles. Two-wheelers are not tolled on the road popularly referred to as the IT Corridor or Old Mahabalipuram Road.
The toll applies to the 20-km stretch, the first phase, running south from Madhya Kailash junction in Adyar up to Siruseri. OMR is a 45-km stretch that runs up to Mamallapuram.
The State Government has licensed IT Expressway Ltd, a subsidiary of the Tamilnadu Road Development Company Ltd, to collect toll on the road for 30 years from July 1, 2006 to June 30, 2036.
The parent company is a joint venture between Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation, a State-run industry promotion agency and Tidel Park Ltd, another State public sector enterprise that operates information technology parks. It is implementing the toll road upgrading work and is expected to start on the second phase between Siruseri and Mamallapuram soon.
The tolls originally fixed in 2006 are hiked by 10 per cent once in two years. However, toll collection started from December 15, 2008.
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