Highway Driving To Get Costly as Toll Rates To Go Up Across 1,100 Plazas from Tomorrow

Motorists using expressways will have to shell out more from June 3 as the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has decided to hike tolls across the country by an average of 5%.

The annual revision of highway user fee, which is expected to be in the range of average 5%, was earlier to come into effect on April 1. But the hike was deferred due to the Lok Sabha elections.

"The new user fee will come into effect from 3.6.2024," a senior NHAI official said on Sunday.

The change in toll fee is part of an annual exercise to revise the rates that are linked to the changes in the wholesale price index (CPI)-based inflation.