NEW DELHI: Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh will get the major share of revenue from the issuance of national permits for trucks under the new policy. The Centre has now notified the draft rules on how the share of each state.
Under the new national permit policy, trucks can get the permit for the entire country after paying Rs 15,000 per year. The draft notification proposes that Maharashtra will get a maximum of Rs 1,576 per permit per annum whereas Mizoram will get the lowest share of revenue -- Rs 4. The norm proposes that Uttar Pradesh, with a major share of national and state highways network, will get 10.5% of the consolidated fee on national permits. The consolidated share would come to Rs 1,574 per permit.
Similarly, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka and Gujarat will get a sizable share of the consolidated fee on the national permits.
Under the new scheme, a state in which a truck is registered will issue a single national permit for Rs 15,000 per truck annually, which could help operators save around Rs 10,000. Currently, these truckers pay Rs 20,000 and get access to the home state and three neighbouring states. For each additional state, the transporter has to pay another Rs 5,000. Presently about 1.2 million trucks with national permits ply across the country.
Earlier, the road, transport and highways ministry and states had worked out the compensation formula. However, sources said that Tamil Nadu and Bihar were not happy with it. "Now we have notified the specification for distribution of the consolidated fee among states and Union Territories. All the stakeholders can file their objections, which will be considered prior to the issuance of the final notification,'' said a ministry official.
However, industry analysts still feel that the government has not given enough time to the stakeholders to respond and file their objections.
S P Singh, senior fellow at Indian Foundation of Transport Research and Training (IFTRT), said, "The government has given little time for the stakeholders to make suggestions or objections this time. On all earlier occasions, when any amendment was made to the national permit scheme, the government gave at least 45 days to the stakeholders to give suggestions and objections. This time there is no specified period for this.''
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