You cannot travel on the Delhi-Meerut Expressway from next week without paying toll tax. The National Highways Authority of India has made all preparations to collect toll tax on the Delhi-Meerut Expressway. For this, a company collecting toll tax has also been selected.
New Delhi. There is big news for those who enjoy traveling on the Delhi-Meerut Expressway for the last several months without paying toll tax. From next week, you cannot travel on the Delhi-Meerut Expressway without paying toll tax. The National Highways Authority of India has made all preparations to collect toll tax on the Delhi-Meerut Expressway. For this, a company collecting toll tax has also been selected. The agreement between NHAI and the company has not yet been done, so there is a delay in collecting toll tax. After the agreement is done, the process of recovery will start on this expressway. According to NHAI, the trial will run for the first few days, then toll tax will be collected from FASTag.
For the past few months, people were using the Delhi-Meerut Expressway extensively to travel. This year this expressway has been made ready. Ever since the start of the expressway, people were traveling from Delhi to Western Uttar Pradesh or Western Uttar Pradesh to Delhi for free, but now the free service on this expressway is going to end. It is being told that any time after November 15, drivers traveling on the Delhi-Meerut Expressway may have to pay toll tax. A day earlier on Wednesday, the team of NHAI and Toll Company visited the Delhi-Meerut Expressway.
Will there be a reduction in the number of vehicles on the Delhi-Meerut Expressway?
It is believed that after the start of toll collection, the number of vehicles on the Delhi-Meerut Expressway will come down. People will use other routes instead of Delhi-Meerut Expressway to save toll. However, people keeping track of distance in the journey will use the Delhi-Meerut Expressway more.
The rate of toll tax has been released.
Recently, the rate of toll tax on the expressway was issued by the Union Ministry of Road and Transport. The journey of drivers going from Delhi to Meerut or Ghaziabad towards Delhi-Meerut Expressway will be costlier by Rs 120 as compared to earlier. Although there was talk of preparing to collect toll from September 1, but this work could not be started due to not finalizing the toll tax collecting company.
DME will be the first such expressway in the country, on which toll will be collected according to the distance. It will also be the first expressway to collect toll from a moving vehicle through FASTag. For this, 130 Automatic Number Plate Reader (ANPR) cameras have been installed on the entire expressway, whose trial was going on for the last three months.
