After allowing the conveniences of Annual FastTag membership, the Government has now reduced the Toll Rates for certain sections of the National Highways that have structures such as Tunnels, Bridges and Flyovers or Elevated stretches. The Move has been aimed to add to the convenience of the Motorists with reduced travelling costs.
Until now, the fees at Toll Plazas on national highway were collected as per the NH Fee Rule 2008. To bring this new aid, the Ministry of Road and transport and highway has made amendments to the 2008 rules and Notified a new method or formula for ascertaining the Toll charges on the National Highway.
New Notification
A new notification dated 2nd of July iterated that the rate of fee for use of a section of national highway comprising of structures would be calculated by adding ten times the length of structures to the length of the section of national highway excluding the length of structure or structures, or five times the total length of the section of National Highway, whichever is lesser shall be paid by the motorist. These structures would include Independent bridges, Tunnels, Flyovers or Elevated Highway.
To further help motorists understand the new rule, it has been detailed with an example that if the total length of the highway is 40 Km comprising structure alone the minimum length would be computed as 10X40 ( ten times of the length of the structure)= 400 Km’ or 5 times the total length of the section of a National Highway= 5 X 40=200 Km’s. The user fee would be calculated on the lesser length.
As per the existing rules, the users pay 10 times the regular toll for every kilometer of the structure on National Highways. The existing toll structure method was meant to offset higher construction costs associated with such infrastructure.
