Lok Sabha Question No. 750 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-02-07
Subject: Check Gates and Toll Gates on NHs
Ministry: ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAYS
Asked by: RADHESHYAM BISWAS

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAYS

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 750

ANSWERED ON 7 TH  FEBRUARY, 2019

## CHECK GATES AND TOLL GATES ON NHS

## 750. SHRI RADHESHYAM BISWAS:

## Will the Minister of ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAYS

be pleased to state:

(a)  the  detail  criteria  of  establishment  of    various    check    gates    on    National  Highways    (NHs) including  toll  gates throughout the country;

(b)  whether  the  gates  established  by  the  State  Governments  have  been  notified  by  the  Union Government;

(c) if so, the details thereof; and

(d) the total number of gates existing on  the  NHs,  State/UT-wise  including Assam?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAYS

## (SHRI MANSUKH L. MANDAVIYA)

(a)  to  (c)  Fee  plazas  are  established  on  National  Highways  for  collection  of  user  fee  as  per  the applicable  National  Highways  (NH)  Fee  Rules  1997/2008.  Government  has  notified  the  National Highways Fee (Determination of Rates & Collection) Rules, 2008 on 05.12.2008, and the said rules, as amended from time to time, are applicable for determination of user fee for the projects executed and  bids  invited  on  or  after  05.12.2008.  For  the  private  funded  projects  completed  before  5th December, 2008 the fee collection is as per the provisions of the National Highways (collection of Fees by any person for the use of Section of National Highways/Permanent Bridge/Temporary Bridge on National Highways) Rules, 1997; and the National Highways (Rate of fee) Rules, 1997. However, NH Fee Rules 2008 are also applicable to public funded projects executed before 05.12.2008. The user fee on a stretch of National Highways is collected as per the individual Notifications published in the Official Gazette by the Central Government.  In cases where a particular stretch of National

Highway  is  entrusted  to  a  State  Government/UT,  the  executing  authority  of  the  concerned  State Government/UT complies with the notification issued by the Central Government.

- (d)  As  on  31.12.2018,  the  state-wise  details  of  the  number  of  fee  plazas  operated  on  National Highways (NHs) are as under:

| S. No.   | State                                      |   Number of Fee Plazas |
|----------|--------------------------------------------|------------------------|
| 1.       | Andhra Pradesh                             |                     39 |
| 2.       | Assam                                      |                     04 |
| 3.       | Bihar                                      |                     17 |
| 4.       | Chhattisgarh                               |                     07 |
| 5.       | Delhi &EPE (Eastern Peripheral Expressway) |                     11 |
| 6.       | Gujarat                                    |                     36 |
| 7.       | Haryana                                    |                     18 |
| 8.       | Jammu &Kashmir                             |                     05 |
| 9.       | Jharkhand                                  |                     05 |
| 10.      | Karnataka                                  |                     41 |
| 11.      | Kerala                                     |                     03 |
| 12.      | Madhya Pradesh                             |                     38 |
| 13.      | Maharashtra                                |                     43 |
| 14.      | Odisha                                     |                     11 |
| 15.      | Punjab                                     |                     22 |
| 16.      | Rajasthan                                  |                     77 |
| 17.      | Tamil Nadu                                 |                     52 |
| 18.      | Telangana                                  |                     15 |
| 19.      | Uttar Pradesh                              |                     48 |
| 20.      | Uttarakhand                                |                     02 |
| 21.      | West Bengal                                |                     17 |
| TOTAL    |                                            |                    511 |

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