New Delhi: In another step to rationalize toling on National Highways (NHS), the Ministry of Road Transport has proposed to reduce the toll during the expansion of two-lane highways 10 meters wide, with paved shoulders with paved shoulders for four-lane highways. This has been proposed as passengers do not get the desired service, while construction work is going on on such stretch, in which the width of the highway is decreasing.Currently, the user fee for such parts is 60 percent of normal toll for NHS, even during the expansion phase, as they are narrow highways without divider. If the proposal undergoes the proposal and receives a green signal from the Ministry of Finance, the user fee will reduce only 30 percent of the normal toll during the construction phase.In the case of widening four-lane highways up to six lanes or expanding six-lane highways up to eight lanes, charged toll is shared at 75 percent of the normal rate during the construction phase. This is also because passengers do not get the desired service, while work is going on on such stretch. This has also been a major issue, even examples of courts that focus on discrepancy.The proposal to provide relief to passengers using two-lane NHS with the benefits of paved shoulders with Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari has announced a plan to convert 25,000 km of two-lane highways into four-lane highways with an investment of Rs 10 lakh crore in the next two years. The government will focus on the expansion of two-lanes and two-lanes in the next decade, which consists of pucca shoulders NH stretch, as about 80,000 km out of this category of about 80,000 km of NHS’s total 1.46-leaks-kilometer length.Earlier, to provide relief to passengers, the government had announced the RS -3,000 annual toll pass plan, which would allow private vehicles to cross 200 toll plazas annually. Recently, it reported a new rule to reduce toll rates by up to 50 percent for structures such as bridges, tunnels, flyovers and highways, which would benefit commercial and heavy vehicles.
