Toll Tax- Good news for vehicle owners. If you are fond of road trips or travel on national highways daily, then this news can give you relief (Highway travel cost relief). The government has reduced the toll tax on National Highways by a huge 50%. This reduction has been done especially on those highways where flyovers, bridges, tunnels and elevated stretches have been built. This means that now the cost of your travel will decrease. The new rule of toll tax (toll reduction) has come into effect. Travelers will soon start getting its benefits.
How much toll was collected till now?
According to an official of the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI), due to the old rules, there is some special infrastructure built on every kilometer on the highway, for which you had to pay 10 times the average toll charge so that the cost of that infrastructure can be recovered. But now in the new rules, this toll will be reduced by 50%.
What is the new formula to reduce toll?
Let us understand this with an example. Suppose a part of the National Highway is 40 kilometers long. And this entire part has structures i.e. flyovers, bridges or tunnels. In such a case, two methods are adopted to calculate the toll. First method – The length of the structure is multiplied by 10. That is, 10×40=400 kilometers.
Second method- The length of the entire highway portion is multiplied by 5. That is, 5×40 = 200 kilometers. Now, toll tax will be collected on the basis of whichever is less. This means that toll tax will be levied only on half the length of the highway, which will reduce toll tax by up to 50%.
Who will benefit?
The new rule of the government will benefit those people who travel on such highways where more than 50% of the structures are built. That is, more than 50% of those highways have bridges, tunnels and flyovers. For example, highways like Dwarka Expressway connecting Delhi to Gurugram used to have a toll of Rs 317 till now, which can be reduced to Rs 153.