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NHAI scraps 50 percent discount for local commercial vehicles at toll gates.

CHENNAI: Within a few days after the Lok Sabha and Assembly by-elections were held in the State, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has begun to implement revised toll fee rules, withdrawing the concession for locally registered commercial vehicles in toll gates across the State

According to National Highways (Rate and Fee Rules) 1997, a local commercial vehicle is exempted 50 per cent of prescribed user fee of that category and the non-commercial vehicle is eligible for the monthly pass at discounted rates. However, the revised toll rate rules issued in 2008 ‘National Highways Fee (Determination of Rate and Collection) Rules 2008’ has allowed the concession at toll gates only for locally registered non-commercial vehicles and have not granted the user fee discount for commercial vehicles.

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