Utility News Desk!!! In India, if someone travels from one state to another by vehicle, he has to pay toll. Whichever state you go to, you definitely find some expressway or the other. Traveling through expressways makes it much easier for people to reach from one city to another. People’s time is also saved.
You also find many toll plazas on those expressways. Where you have to pay toll. The National Highway Authority of India oversees all the expressways in India. She decides the price of toll. Today we are going to tell you about the most expensive expressway of the country, on which you have to pay the highest toll.
You must have traveled many times from one state to another in your vehicle. During this time you would have come across state highways and national highways. Here you would have found many toll plazas where you would have paid toll. But do you know where in the country the highest toll tax has to be paid? If you don’t know, then let us know if you travel by Mumbai-Pune Expressway. So you have to pay the highest toll tax. Mumbai-Pune Expressway is the most expensive expressway in India in this respect.
The total distance of Mumbai-Pune Expressway is 94 kilometers. If you are going by 4-wheelers. So you will have to pay toll tax of Rs 320. Which is the highest in terms of distance in India. If you go from there by mini bus and tempo. So you will have to pay Rs 495. Whereas if you go by two-axle trucks, you will have to pay Rs 685. Apart from this, buses have to pay Rs 940 to go through this expressway. Let us tell you that the toll per kilometer on this expressway is Rs 3.40. Which is 1 rupee more than the rest of the expressways in the country. The toll rates of this expressway are also increased by 6 percent every year.
Mumbai-Pune Expressway was completed in the year 2002 at a cost of approximately Rs 1630 crore. It starts from Kalamboli in Navi Mumbai and ends at Kiwala in Pune. Apart from being the most expensive expressway of India, it is also the busiest expressway of India.
