MUMBAI: Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday said his party never promised a toll-free state in its election manifesto but had only vowed to discontinue the road-use levy wherever the project had not been implemented judiciously.

He announced that he would order an inquiry into those toll road projects where the agreements did not have the clause for a buy-back by the government.

“These one-sided agreements by the old government with road contractors in the absence of a toll policy will be thoroughly investigated. We will also find a solution if some of the toll posts have to be removed by buying back the road projects,” he said.

A day after he set an ambitious target to give the city a coastal road in two years, Fadnavis toned down the spree of alleged “dream-selling” by the new government.

He urged people and the media to judge his government by not only its performance but also its intentions, asking all to appreciate the planning and decision-making over the last 100 days.

MSRDC minister Eknath Shinde vowed to complete the Rs 7,000 crore Mumbai-Pune expressway bypass project, which experts said might be a further burden on people with a heavy toll for an even longer period.

Fadnavis said he was handed over the state after 15 years of “policy, decision and implementation paralysis”.

He reiterated that FSI and other tools of real estate development would be used for growth. “Efforts to control population concentration in some areas by controlling FSI have failed. We will analyze urban challenges in the new context,” he said.

