New Delhi. Owners of private vehicles equipped with Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) will not be charged for traveling up to 20 km per day on highways and expressways. This provision has been made in a notification. The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways on Tuesday issued a notification amending the National Highway Fee (Determination of Rates and Collection) Rules, 2008. Under the new rules notified as National Highway Fee (Determination of Rates and Collection) Amendment Rules, 2024, the vehicle owner will be charged for the total distance only if a distance of more than 20 km is traveled on highways and expressways.
The notification said, “The driver, owner or person in charge of any vehicle other than vehicles holding a national permit who uses the same section of the national highway, permanent bridge, bypass or tunnel will not be charged any fee up to a journey of 20 km in each direction in a day under the GNSS-based user fee collection system. ” The Ministry of Road Transport said in July that it has decided to implement the satellite-based toll collection system on select national highways on a pilot basis as an additional facility with FASTag. A pilot study regarding the GNSS-based user fee collection system has been done on the Bengaluru-Mysore section of NH-275 in Karnataka and the Panipat-Hisar section of NH-709 in Haryana.