STATES' SHARE IN TOLL
Levy
of user fee on four lane National Highways, by passes and
bridges is proposed as under :
- conversion
of existing two lane National Highways Sections into four lane
facility.
- All bridges costing more than Rs.100
lakh each completed and opened to traffic after 1st
May, 1992 but before 4th December, 2001 and all bridges
costing more than Rs.500 lakh each completed on or after 4th
December, 2001.
- All four lane projects, bridges
and bypasses taken up on BOT.
Since
most
of the projects proposed for levy of user fee are under implementation,
it is too early to estimate the additional income from user fee.
During 2001-2002 (upto Feb.2002), an amount of Rs.115.58 crore
was collected from user fee on National Highway projects excluding
taken up on BOT for which user fee is retained by the entrepreneur.
Toll
collected
on bridges is ploughed back for development of National Highways
in the State.
This
information was given by the Minister of State (Independent Charge)
for Road Transport and Highways, Maj.Gen. B.C. Khanduri, AVSM
(Retd.) in a written reply to a question of Shri P. Prabhakar
Reddy in Rajya Sabha today.
