Highway kiosks at toll plazas to sell tea
New Delhi: Toll plazas run by NHAI will soon have kiosks selling drinking water, tea, coffee and packaged food for the convenience of highway users, according to a press release here on Saturday. Termed as Highway Nest (Mini), these kiosks are under construction on both up-side and down-side at all 372 NHAI-run toll plazas.
These kiosks are being built on 10m x 20m paved platforms about 200m -250m from the toll plaza. Public amenities for all including physically challenged persons will also be available at these sites.
Two Highway Nests (Mini) have already been inaugurated - one at Narayanpura toll plaza on NH-76 on Udaipur-Chittorgarh-Kota route under Regional Office, Jaipur and another at Hyderabad-Vijaywada section of NH-65, Korlapahad toll plaza at 118.250 km (TP-2) under RO Hyderabad. Efforts are being made to have the Highway Nest (Mini) in place on all the remaining toll plazas by the end of March 2018, the release states.