Toll Prices Hiked, NHAI increases rates across national highways

The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has implemented an increase of 4 to 5 percent across highway sections in the country. The revised toll charges for motorists on national highways across the country have come into effect from Tuesday, a senior highways ministry official told PTI.

The change in toll fee is part of an annual exercise to revise the rates that are linked to the changes in the wholesale price index-based inflation. Every year, it is implemented from April 1. Moreover, NHAI notifies toll rate hikes for all the national highways and expressways separately.

There are around 855 user fee plazas on the national highway network on which user fee is levied as per National Highways Fee (Determination of Rates and Collection) Rules, 2008. Out of these, around 675 are public-funded fee plazas and 180 are concessionaire-operated toll plazas.