Government collected Rs 1.44 lakh crore toll at highway plazas under public-private partnership since 2000

The authorities has collected Rs 1.44 lakh crore arsenic toll taxation astatine interest plazas presently operational nether Public Private Partnerships (PPP) exemplary connected National Highways since December 2000, Parliament was informed connected Thursday.

In a written reply to a question successful the Lok Sabha, roadworthy transport and highways curate Nitin Gadkari said each idiosyncratic interest plazas connected National Highways are established arsenic per the proviso of National Highways Fee (Determination of Rates and Collection) Rules, 2008 and the respective Concession Agreement.

"Amount of 1.44 lakh crore rupees person been collected arsenic idiosyncratic interest astatine interest plazas presently operational nether Public Private Partnerships (PPP) exemplary connected National Highways since December, 2000," helium said.

Replying to a abstracted question, Gadkari said the authorities has initiated the implementation of barrier-free tolling utilizing disposable exertion based physics toll postulation (ETC) strategy arsenic an added installation on with FASTag.

The curate said presently, Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) based tolling strategy is not operational anyplace connected National Highways.

However, helium added that amendment to the the NH Fee Rules, 2008 (dated Sep 9, 2024) has been made to alteration GNSS-based tolling strategy done On-Board Unit (OBU) and users of vehicles not fitted with a valid, functional Global Navigation Satellite System On-Board Unit shall person to wage a interest equivalent to 2 times of the idiosyncratic interest applicable for that class of conveyance astatine that interest plaza successful lawsuit the GNSS based tolling is made operational.

In the GNSS-based idiosyncratic interest postulation system, toll charges shall beryllium levied based connected the existent region travelled by a vehicle, connected a National Highway oregon expressway successful word of NH Fee Rules, 2008 and amendment thereof.

Whereas, astatine present, the idiosyncratic interest is collected astatine the interest plaza depending connected task power magnitude of respective interest plaza.