Chandigarh, July 14: Commuters traveling through several major districts in Punjab and Haryana will face a slight increase in travel costs starting July 14, following a revision of user fees by the National Highways Authority of India. The adjustment affects eight key toll plazas, including those in Sangrur, Chandigarh, Ludhiana, Amritsar, Tarn Taran, Faridkot, Bathinda, Abohar, and Maur, with rates climbing by five to ten rupees.
This update follows a standard adjustment of the tolling framework, incorporating a Wholesale Price Index linking factor of 1.641 for calculations. National Highways Authority of India officials affirmed that the adjustment represents a return to standard pricing. An official stated that user fees had been reduced in certain instances during the previous year, and the revised framework simply restores those rates, keeping the overall change minimal in most locations. While the updated rates have been notified at more than fifty toll plazas across the broader region, only eight specific stations are implementing this immediate increase.
Under the updated schedule, the Ghulal Toll Plaza on the Chandigarh-Kharar-Ludhiana section of National Highway 5 will charge private cars and light motor vehicles one hundred and fifteen rupees for a single journey and one hundred and seventy rupees for a return trip. Buses and trucks passing through this point will pay three hundred and ninety rupees for a single run and five hundred and eighty rupees for a two-way journey. For those using the Kalajhar Toll Plaza on the Patiala Bypass section of National Highway 64, the rate for cars and light motor vehicles matches Ghulal at one hundred and fifteen rupees single and one hundred and seventy-five rupees return, with heavy vehicles set at three hundred and ninety rupees and five hundred and eighty-five rupees respectively.
Further down on National Highway 7 at the Lehrabega Plaza along the Tapa-Bathinda section, car drivers must pay eighty rupees for a single trip and one hundred and twenty rupees for a return, while heavy transport vehicles are charged two hundred and seventy rupees and four hundred rupees. Meanwhile, at the Khuian Sarvar Toll Plaza on the Malout-Abohar Bypass-Sadhuwali section of National Highway 7, cars will be charged one hundred and five rupees for a single trip and one hundred and fifty-five rupees for a two-way journey, with buses and trucks paying three hundred and fifty rupees and five hundred and twenty rupees respectively.
At the Paind Toll Plaza on the Sangrur-Dogal Kalan section of National Highway 52, private cars will pay ninety-five rupees for a single run and one hundred and forty-five rupees for a return, while commercial heavy vehicles are charged three hundred and twenty-five rupees and four hundred and eighty-five rupees.
For travel through the Kot Karor Plaza on the Amritsar-Tarn Taran-Harike-Faridkot-Bathinda stretch of National Highway 15, light vehicles will pay fifty rupees single and seventy rupees for a two-way trip, while buses and trucks are set at one hundred and sixty-five rupees and two hundred and fifty rupees. At the Kala Tibba Plaza on the Abohar-Sito-Ginno-Dabwali stretch, cars will similarly pay fifty rupees for a single trip but eighty rupees for a return, with heavy vehicles charged one hundred and seventy-five rupees and two hundred and sixty-five rupees. Finally, the Shekhpura Toll Plaza on the Maur-Romana Mandi section of National Highway 254 will charge light vehicles fifty-five rupees single and eighty-five rupees return, while heavy vehicles will pay one hundred and eighty-five rupees for a single trip and two hundred and eighty rupees for a return journey.
