Chandigarh, July 14: Travelers across Punjab and Haryana must budget slightly more for road trips starting July 14 as the National Highways Authority of India implements a nominal rate revision. The adjustment affects eight plazas located along prominent routes connecting regions like Ludhiana, Amritsar, Bathinda, and Chandigarh. The price adjustments range between five and ten rupees depending on the station and vehicle type.
Authority representatives declared that the policy adjustment follows a technical update to the regional tolling system. An official asserted that user fees were lowered in some areas last year, and the new structure merely restores those previous rates, keeping the impact quite low for the vast majority of motorists. Over fifty toll plazas in the region have received notifications regarding the updated calculations, though the actual price increase is confined to these eight specific points. The updated mathematics rely on a Wholesale Price Index linking factor of 1.641 to maintain infrastructure standards.
The updated list shows that travelers using the Ghulal Toll Plaza on the Chandigarh-Kharar-Ludhiana stretch of National Highway 5 will pay one hundred and fifteen rupees for a single trip and one hundred and seventy rupees for a return. Commercial buses and trucks at this point will pay three hundred and ninety rupees single and five hundred and eighty rupees for a two-way trip. At the Kalajhar Toll Plaza on the Patiala Bypass section of National Highway 64, the pricing matches closely, with light vehicles charged one hundred and fifteen rupees single and one hundred and seventy-five rupees for a return, while heavy vehicles will pay three hundred and ninety rupees and five hundred and eighty-five rupees respectively.
Motorists traveling through the Paind Toll Plaza on the Sangrur-Dogal Kalan section of National Highway 52 will see light vehicle rates set at ninety-five rupees single and one hundred and forty-five rupees return, while heavy transport charges stand at three hundred and twenty-five rupees single and four hundred and eighty-five rupees for a return trip. Along the Malout-Abohar Bypass-Sadhuwali section of National Highway 7, the Khuian Sarvar Plaza will charge cars one hundred and five rupees single and one hundred and fifty-five rupees for a return, with heavy vehicles paying three hundred and fifty rupees single and five hundred and twenty rupees return.
At the Lehrabega Plaza on the Tapa-Bathinda section of National Highway 7, the fee for cars is eighty rupees for a single journey and one hundred and twenty rupees for a return trip, with heavy vehicles charged two hundred and seventy rupees and four hundred rupees.
At the Kot Karor Plaza along the Amritsar-Tarn Taran-Harike-Faridkot-Bathinda section of National Highway 15, the rate for cars and light vehicles is fifty rupees single and seventy rupees return, while buses and trucks will pay one hundred and sixty-five rupees single and two hundred and fifty rupees return. The Kala Tibba Plaza on the Abohar-Sito-Ginno-Dabwali stretch will charge cars fifty rupees single and eighty rupees return, with heavy vehicles paying one hundred and seventy-five rupees and two hundred and sixty-five rupees. Lastly, at the Shekhpura Plaza on the Maur-Romana Mandi section of National Highway 254, light vehicles will pay fifty-five rupees single and eighty-five rupees return, while heavy commercial vehicles will pay one hundred and eighty-five rupees single and two hundred and eighty rupees for a return trip.
