In three-and-a-half years till October, toll collection on the Gurgaon expressway was close to Rs 739 crore while it was at least Rs 1,188 crore on the Gurgaon-Jaipur stretch, minister of state for road transport and highways Sarve Sathyanarayana told Lok Sabha on Monday.
The list placed before the House had details of all NH projects where toll charges are collected either by agencies appointed by NHAI or by private concessionaires who have bagged projects under build-operate-transfer (BOT-Toll) mode.
While Gurgaon expressway is on the revenue sharing model where NHAI gets 50% of the toll collected beyond 1.2 lakh passenger car units (PCUs) per day, in the case of Gurgaon-Jaipur stretch, the authority gets 48% of the toll and this increases annually by 1%.
Though a few MPs in Lok Sabha accused the government of allowing contractors to exploit commuters by charging toll even when road work was not complete and their inefficiency in providing facilities, no question was raised on NHAI's role even as it is earning money from these projects.
Responding to the alleged exploitation by contractors, highways minister C P Joshi assured the House that his ministry would resolve all toll issues which have cropped up including location of toll plazas because of awarding of different projects during different periods.
Gurgaon expressway project was awarded under the 1997 toll rules that allowed toll plazas within municipal limits. NHAI modified the rules in 2008, saying a toll plaza should be located at least 10 km outside any municipal area and that the minimum distance between two toll plazas should be 60 km. In recent times, there have been several protests against the Gurgaon expressway on these two counts. However, there is no such issue barring the hiked toll on Jaipur highway project since it was awarded as per 2008 toll norms.
Joshi told the House that his ministry would sort out the differences in norms due to the two different set of rules. He assured members that the ministry would negotiate with individual concessionaires to find a way out.
The minister also said that matters like discount to local vehicles could be sorted out and his ministry had started taking steps towards such negotiations.
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