With the rise in person charge collections throughout the toll plazas within the nation, the entire toll assortment in FY25 is about to surpass the earlier 12 months’s file.
In accordance with the information tabled by Ministry of Highway Transport and Highways (MoRTH) in Rajya Sabha on Wednesday, the entire toll assortment as much as February 2025 is already at Rs 54,820 crore, inside touching distance of the collections final fiscal. After factoring within the assortment of March, the entire toll income in FY25 is about to be near Rs 60,000 crore, which might be an all-time excessive, sources mentioned.
Officers mentioned that numerous components comparable to visitors progress, revision in person charge charges, addition of recent tollable highway lengths and many others contribute to the annual enhance in person charge assortment. FASTag has added to extend the person charge assortment.
The overall person charge or toll assortment throughout the monetary 12 months FY24 was Rs 55,882 crore. In all, from the FY20 to February 2025, a complete of Rs 2.48 lakh crore has been collected as toll costs from the general public.
The information additional exhibits that Uttar Pradesh continues to be the very best toll accumulating state with Rs 7,060 crore person charge assortment until February 2025. It’s adopted by Rajasthan, the place toll assortment as much as February in FY25 stood at Rs 5,967 crore.
Maharashtra comes subsequent with Rs 5,115 crore toll income, adopted by Gujarat with Rs 4,874 crore and Tamil Nadu in on fifth place with a set of Rs 4,015 crore as much as February 2025.
Minister of Highway Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari within the written reply mentioned that whereas the annual base charges are uniform on all Nationwide Highways all through the nation, numerous components comparable to lane configuration i.e. 2 lane with paved shoulders/4 or extra lane, size of part, size of bypasses/buildings/tunnels and sort of car (automotive, bus, multi axle vehicles, and many others.) are thought-about in figuring out the speed of person charge at a charge plaza to be used of a specific part of nationwide freeway.
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At the moment, there are a complete of 1,063 toll plazas throughout the nationwide highways within the nation. Out of this, a complete of 457 toll or charge plazas have been constructed within the final 5 monetary years between FY20 and FY24.
Rajasthan has a most of 156 toll plazas, adopted by 97 person charge plazas in Uttar Pradesh and 90 toll plazas in Madhya Pradesh. Equally there are 89 toll plazas in Maharashtra, 78 in Tamil Nadu, 72 in Andhra Pradesh and 60 toll plazas round Delhi.
Prime-5 States with the Highest toll AssortmentFrom 2019-20 to February 2025
Uttar Pradesh- Rs. 29974 crore
Rajasthan- Rs. 27438 crore
Gujarat- Rs. 23591 crore
Maharashtra- Rs. 23431 crore
Tamil Nadu- Rs. 19645 crore
Supply: MoRTH
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