New Highway Rule:Free 20 km Travel on Highways Using GNSS Technology

The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has announced a new rule that allows people to travel for free up to 20 kilometers each way on national highways and expressways every day.

This rule is for vehicles that have the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). The ministry changed the National Highways Fee Rules from 2008 to include this.

With this change, India will use GNSS-based electronic toll collection. This system will help reduce traffic jams at toll plazas and charge people based on the actual distance they travel.

The Government has come with an Amendment in NH Fee Rule, 2008 vide GSR No. 556 dated 9th of September 2024, as an Enabling Amendments in National Highway Fee Rules to make Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) based tolling effective in India.

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The ministry’s notification read, “A driver, owner or person in-charge of a mechanical vehicle other than National Permit Vehicle who makes use of the same section of national highway, permanent bridge, bypass of tunnel, as the case may be, shall be levied a zero-user fee up to twenty kilometres of journey in each direction in a day under Global Navigation Satellite System based user fee collection system and if the distances travelled is more than twenty kilometres, the fee will be charge for actual distance travelled.