kochiwith hundreds of protesters thronging ponnarimangalam toll plaza on thursday morning with a demand to stop the toll collection national highways authority of india nhai has postponed the collection of user fee for the nh966a stretch from kalamassery to ictt vallarpadam sectiondistrict collector k mohammed y safirulla said that a decision on collecting toll would start only after a governmentlevel discussion next weekon wednesday nhai had announced that toll collection will start from 8am on thursday reiterating the demand that toll collection should start only after completion of mulavukad approach road work protesters including residents and various political parties camped at the toll plaza from thursday morningprotesters decided to leave the spot after nhai officials gave assurance that they would not charge user fee till the state government decides work on mulavukad approach road has just started how can nhai officials collect toll money then asked activist cr neelakandanthough the collection of user fee from those living at 20km from the toll plaza was included in the concession list by nhai protesters demanded that toll collection should be completely done away with herein case of other toll plazas in the state people living near the area does not require to pay user fee for roads but here they have to take a monthly pass of rs 255 it is disheartening that the ldf government ruling the state has not taken any stance regarding the issue added neelakandanmeanwhile cpm district secretary c n mohanan at a news meet held in kochi on thursday said that the decision to start the toll collection at ponnarimangalam would not be supportedpeople face many problems including trouble created by antisocials while commuting through nh in such a case this decision would not be supported said mohanannhai had decided to start the toll collection based on the consensus made by protesters of various political parties in 2017 that user fee could be collected once the construction of the approach road beginssuch consensus with members of political party could not be agreed as this is a peoples issue public should be taken into confidence over issues like this added neelakandan