MUMBAI: The state government may exempt citizens, who reside beyond toll posts but within the city’s limits, from paying the levy.

Officials will explore the possibility of issuing identity cards to nearly 25,000 such families living beyond Dahisar toll post. Similar relief may be given to nearly 30,000 people living in Mulund.

Chief minister Prithviraj Chavan met MPs to discuss the issue of toll.

“There are nearly 25,000 families who are unnecessarily paying the levy although they live in Mumbai. If we do not resolve the issue, it may spark unrest,” said Congress MP Sanjay Nirupam who attended the meeting.

“The CM has assured that he will look into the issue,” he added. More than 30,000 families living around Mulund have been demanding the concession for many years.

Thousands of people set ablaze three toll booths connecting Kolhapur with different cities in the south after the concessionaire resumed charging the levy. Seven cops were injured in the violence and the Kolhapur mayor and 150 others were booked.

