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This monetary 12 months, between April 1 and December 31, a complete of Rs 50,345.10 crore was collected as toll, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari advised Rajya Sabha on Wednesday
On the present run fee, collections are more likely to surpass final 12 months’s complete. Publish 2020-21, a pointy improve was witnessed in toll assortment throughout India that has continued.
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The typical day by day toll assortment in India has elevated by about 4 occasions within the final decade—from Rs 48.66 crore per day in 2015-16 to Rs 183.07 crore per day in 2025-26, official knowledge analysed by News18 reveals.
This monetary 12 months, between April 1 and December 31, a complete of Rs 50,345.10 crore was collected as toll, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari advised Rajya Sabha on Wednesday. Throughout 2015-16, India collected Rs 17,759.28 crore in toll.
On the present run fee, collections are more likely to surpass final 12 months’s complete. Publish 2020-21, a pointy improve was witnessed in toll assortment throughout India that has continued.
The surge in collections additionally coincides with full FASTag implementation. In February 2021, the Ministry of Highway Transport and Highways declared all lanes FASTag, making it necessary for all automobiles getting into toll plazas, failing which they have to pay twice the relevant toll.
In 2021-22, the toll collected touched Rs 33,928.66 crore, which elevated to Rs 48,032.40 crore in 2022-23, Rs 55,882.12 crore in 2023-24, and Rs 61,408.15 crore in 2024-25. Total, consumer price collections have greater than tripled between 2015-16 and 2024-25.
In 2020-21, the 12 months that witnessed the outbreak of coronavirus, the toll assortment on nationwide highways stood at Rs 27,926.67 crore—about Rs 76.51 crore per day on common.
In 2016-17, the overall toll assortment stood at Rs 18,511.86 crore, which elevated to Rs 21,763.56 crore in 2017-18. This assortment rose to Rs 26,188.02 crore in 2018–19 and Rs 27,503.86 crore in 2019–20.
Gadkari defined that the rise within the quantity of consumer price assortment at toll price plazas on nationwide highways depends upon a number of elements.
“These embrace the annual revision of consumer price, which is linked to the wholesale worth index in accordance with the Nationwide Highways Price (Dedication of Charges and Assortment) Guidelines, 2008, improve within the size of highways below tolling, the amount of site visitors plying on the stretch, and the class of automobiles utilizing the freeway,” he mentioned.
February 11, 2026, 21:45 IST
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