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REGD. No. D. L.-33004/99
The Gazette of India
CG-DL-E-28072025-265017
EXTRAORDINARY
PART II-Section 3-Sub-section (ii)
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
No. 3370]
NEW DELHI, FRIDAY, JULY 25, 2025/SHRAVANA 3, 1947
MINISTRY OF ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAYS
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 24th July, 2025
S.O. 3447(E).— Whereas by notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Road Transport and
Highways number S.O. 816(E) dated the 22.03.2013 issued under Section 5 of the National Highway Act, 1956 (48 of
1956), the Central Government has entrusted the new National Highway No. 116B situated within the State of West
Bengal to the State Government of West Bengal.
Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by Section 7 of the National Highways Act, 1956 (48 of
1956), read with rule 3 of the National Highways fee (Determination of Rates and Collection) Rules, 2008 (hereinafter
referred to as the "rules"), the Central Government hereby levies the fee on mechanical vehicles at sixty percent of the
base rate specified in column (2) of the Table 1 for net road section length of 48.117 km (Table-2) and for equivalent
structure length (having length more than 60 m) of 5.6 km [(having length of 0.56 km (Table-3)] on the type of vehicles
specified in column (1) of the Table 1 below for use of two lane with paved shoulders of Nandakumar to Digha Section
from km 0.000 to km 25.500 & km 41.000 to km 64.700 of National Highway No. 116B (Nandakumar-Digha section)
in the State of West Bengal, and authorises the National Highways Authority of India (hereinafter referred to as the
"Authority") to collect, either through its officials or through a contractor, the said fee, namely:—
Table -1
+-------------------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+
| Type of Vehicle | Base rate of fee |
| | per km for the base |
| | year 2007-08 (in |
| | Rupees) |
+-------------------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+
| (1) | (2) |
+-------------------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+
| Car Jeep, Van or Light Motor Vehicle | 0.65 |
| Light Commercial Vehicle, Light Goods Vehicle or Mini Bus | 1.05 |
| Bus or Truck (Two Axles) | 2.20 |
| Three-Axle Commercial Vehicles | 2.40 |
| Heavy Construction Machinery (HCM) or Earth Moving Equipment (EME) or Multi | 3.45 |
| Axle Vehicle (MAV) (Four to Six Axles) | |
| Oversized Vehicles (Seven or More Axles) | 4.20 |
+-------------------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+
1. The fee to be levied and collected hereunder shall be due and payable at the Fee Plaza for
net road length specified for such Fee Plaza(s), namely: -
Table-2
+---------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+
| Location of Fee Plaza (chainage) | Length (in km) for which Fee is | Rate at which fee is |
| | payable | payable |
+---------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+
| At Km./Ch. 14.150 of NH-116B near | | 60% for two lanes with |
| Gobardhanpur (Chandipur) in Purba | 48.117 kms | paved shoulders, of the base |
| Medinipur district, West Bengal. | | rates mentioned in Table-1 |
| | | above |
+---------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+
2. In addition to above, the following fee shall also be due and payable for the use of the following structures
having length more than 60m at the following Fee Plaza(s), by converting the length of structures into an
equivalent length of highway by multiplying the length of such structures by an equalisation factor of 10: -
Table 3
+---------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------+
| Location of Toll Plaza (chainage) | Length of structuresEquivalent | Rate at which fee is payable|
| | (in km) to beRoad length | |
| | converted into | |
| | equivalent road length (in km) | |
+---------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------+
| At Km./Ch. 14.150 of NH- | | 60% for two lane with paved |
| 116B near Gobardhanpur | 0.560^ | shoulders, of the base rates|
| (Chandipur) in Purba | | mentioned in Table-1 above. |
| Medinipur district, West | | |
| Bengal | | |
+---------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------+
^Details of structure having length more than 60m is as under:-
Chainage
+-------+-------------------+---------------------+--------------------+-------------------+
| S.No. | From Km | To Km | Type of Structure | Length (in Km.) |
+-------+-------------------+---------------------+--------------------+-------------------+
| 1. | 8.772 | 9.332 | Mograjpur ROB | 0.560 |
+-------+-------------------+---------------------+--------------------+-------------------+
3. The rate of monthly pass for a person who owns a mechanical vehicle registered for non-commercial
purposes and resides within a distance of twenty kilometers from the fee plaza is Rs. 350 (Rupees Three
Hundred Fifty only) for the year 2025-26 and is subject to revision every year as per the provisions of the
said rules.
4. For multiple journeys on the highway section, passes shall be issued at the following rates, namely: -
Table-4
+----------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
| Amount Payable | Maximum number of one-way | Period of validity |
| | journeys allowed | |
+----------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
| One and half times of the fee for one way | Two | Twenty-four hours from the |
| journey | | time of payment |
+----------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
| Two-third of amount of the fee payable | Fifty | One month from date of |
| for fifty single journeys | | payment |
+----------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
5. Fee for commercial vehicle (excluding vehicles plying under National permit) registered in the district
where the fee plaza falls shall be 50% of the specified rate for that category of vehicle provided no service
road or alternative road is available for use of such commercial vehicles.
6. The driver or owner or a person in charge of a mechanical vehicle which is loaded in excess of
permissible load specified for its category, shall be liable to pay fee for entering the overloaded vehicle on
the National Highway to the toll collecting agency, equal to the fee specified in sub-rule 1A of rule 10 of said
rules, and shall not be entitled to make use of the highway section unless the excess load has been removed
from such mechanical vehicle.
7. All definitions including category of mechanical vehicles, its permissible load, category of exempted
vehicles, service road, alternative road etc. shall be as per definitions specified in the said rules.
8. The fee rates shall be displayed for information of the users in accordance with rules 12 of the said
rules.
9. Based on the base rate of fee per kilometer for the base year 2007-08 as mentioned in Table-1 above,
the actual amount of fee to be charged from the mechanical vehicles and the discounts will be calculated by
the Authority on the basis of the completed length of the section and revised annually in accordance with the
rule 5 of the said rules and the same shall be published in at least one newspaper in English and vernacular
language.
10. The estimated capital cost of the project is Rupees 408.64 crore. The capital cost is subject to
variation as the activities of land acquisition, utility shifting, tree cutting, etc. are yet to be completed. The
National Highway Authority of India shall maintain a record of the recovery of capital cost through user fee
realised.
[F. No. NH-12014/63/2023-RO-KOL/E-223778]
VINAY KUMAR, Addl. Secy