Residents of three panchayats exempted from toll payment

Residents of Mulavukad, Cheranalloor, and Kadamakudy using Container Road will continue to be exempted from toll payment at the National Highways Authority of India’s toll plaza at Ponnarimangalam. A decision in this regard was taken at a meeting convened by District Collector S. Suhas here on Monday. Ernakulam MP Hibi Eden had taken up with the Collector the issue of the NHAI collecting toll during the past one week from the residents of the three panchayats. Mr. Eden said people of the said localities had surrendered their land and even the source of livelihood for the road to materialise.