Coming soon: No NOC for RC, insurance renewal without paying toll dues

NEW DELHI: Those with pending toll dues for usage of National Highways (NHs) volition soon not beryllium capable to get a no-objection certificate (NOC) for renewal of registration and insurance, alteration of ownership, transportation and issuance of fittingness certificate.

The roadworthy transport ministry has issued a draught notification to present this alteration successful Motor Vehicle Rules, to boost integer postulation of toll fees and guarantee that nary 1 gets a escaped thrust connected tolled highways.The determination gains further value successful airy of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) going for multi lane escaped travel (MLFF) connected NH stretches for tolling purposes, with determination being nary carnal obstruction to halt vehicles for postulation of idiosyncratic fee.The draught notification proposes that the registration authorities “shall not assistance request” for depositing centrifugal conveyance taxation oregon signaling transportation of ownership successful certificate of registration if “unpaid idiosyncratic fee” is reflected against the conveyance successful question. The projected alteration successful rules besides says that successful lawsuit a conveyance crosses a tolling constituent aft being electronically recorded but the toll complaint is not paid, either due to the fact that of the conveyance not having an affixed valid FASTag oregon connected relationship of a pending challan, it volition beryllium reflected arsenic unpaid idiosyncratic interest successful the system.

Officials said that conveyance owners would beryllium allowed to avail the vehicle- and transport-related services lone aft they wide the toll dues.Earlier, NHAI had urged the roadworthy transport ministry to marque changes successful the Vahan system, which is the repository for each registered vehicles, to retrieve unpaid toll from vehicles with nary FASTag oregon faulty/blacklisted tags.