Lok Sabha Question No. 409 (STARRED), answered on 2025-08-21
Subject: Toll Tax Exemptions
Ministry: ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAYS
Asked by: Shri Gurjeet Singh Aujla

## be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Ministry had issued a notification exempting all agriculture  vehicles  including  tractor  and  combine  harvesters  from  toll tax  payment  at  toll  plazas  across  the  country  and  if  so,  the  details thereof;
- (b)  whether  a  number  of  toll  operators  still  continue  to  collect  toll  tax from combine harvester owners/drivers;
- (c) if so, the reasons for the notification not being implemented uniformly across all toll plazas in the country; and
- (d)  the  steps  taken/proposed to be taken by the Government to ensure strict compliance of the said notification?

## ANSWER

THE MINISTER OF ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAYS

(SHRI NITIN JAIRAM GADKARI)

- (a) to (d) A Statement is laid on the Table of the House.

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAYS

## LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 409 ANSWERED ON 21 ST  AUGUST, 2025

## TOLL TAX EXEMPTIONS

- *409. SHRI GURJEET SINGH AUJLA:

## Will the Minister of ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAYS

सड़क परिवहन औि िाजमार्ग मंत्री

## STATEMENT

STATEMENT  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PARTS  (a)  TO  (d)  OF  LOK SABHA  STARRED  QUESTION  NO.  409  FOR  ANSWER  ON  21.08.2025 ASKED  BY  SHRI  GURJEET  SINGH  AUJLA  REGARDING  TOLL  TAX EXEMPTIONS.

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- (a)  The  Government issued Gazette Notification no. G.S.R 248(E) dated 14 th  March, 2017 to amend the National Highways Fee (Determination of Rates  and  Collection)  Rules,  2008  exempting  tractors  and  combine harvesters from user fee payment at fee plazas on National Highways. Tractors were already exempted as per the provisions of NH Fee Rule. In the said Gazette Notification, the word 'Tractors' has been substituted with the word 'Tractors, combine harvesters.'
- (b) to (c) The amendment notification dated 14 th  March, 2017 is complied with at all Public Funded fee Plazas and BOT (Build-Operate-Transfer) fee plazas  where  the  bid  due  date  was  after  the  notification  dated  14 th March, 2017. For other BOT (Build-Operate-Transfer) fee plazas, user fee is collected as per the respective Concession Agreements in accordance with  the  then  applicable  Fee  Gazette  Notifications  read  with  National Highways Fee (Determination of Rates and Collection) Rules, 2008 at the time of award of the concession.
- (d)  Electronic  mode  of  collection  of  user  fee  is  implemented  at  all  fee plazas  of  NH  which  ensures  that  only  the  rate  applicable  for  the particular category of vehicle is levied from the FASTag account of the road user automatically while crossing the Fee Plaza.

To  ensure  transparency,  Toll  Management  and  Control  Centre  (TMCC) portal  has  been  developed  by  National  Highways  Authority  of  India (NHAI)/  Indian  Highway  Management  Company  Limited  (IHMCL)  to monitor the real time transaction details of fee plazas to identify and sort out any discrepancies and to monitor lane operations continuously.

In  case  of  wrong  deduction  cases,  as  per  Rule  13  of  National Highways (Determination of Rates and Collection) Rules 2008, an officer authorized by the Central Government or by the executing authority, as the  case  may  be,  may  assess  the  excess  fee  collected,  if  any,  by  the executing  authority  or  the  concessionaire,  as  the  case  may  be,  and recover the same from such authority or concessionaire, along with an additional sum equal to twenty-five per cent of the excess fee collected.

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