- Saturday, November 23, 2024
The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), which develops, maintains and manages national highways across the nation, has hiked the toll charges by an average of five per cent.
By: Shubham Ghosh
THE revised toll charges for motorists on national highways across India have come to effect from Monday (3), an official said.
The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), which develops, maintains and manages national highways across the nation, has hiked the toll charges by an average of five per cent.
The hike is part of NHAI’s annual exercise where the state-owned body calculates new rates factoring in several parameters, a senior NHAI official told the Press Trust of India.
Every year, it is implemented from April 1 but this year the implementation was deferred due to general elections. The average hike this time was five per cent.
The revised user fee has been implemented from Monday, the official added.
“The fuel costs were already high. The increased toll rates will make road journeys costlier for people,” said Ankur Saxena, an advertising professional who frequently travels through Delhi-Lucknow route.
The toll fee is revised annually, taking into accounts the changes in the wholesale price index (CPI)-based inflation. There are around 855 user fee plazas on the national highway network on which user fee is levied as per the National Highways Fee (Determination of Rates and Collection) Rules, 2008.
Out of these, around 675 are public-funded fee plazas and 180 are operated by concessionaires.
(With PTI inputs)
