How much does India earn from toll plaza every day? Know where the most revenue comes from

New Delhi
Whenever you leave your car on a national highway or expressway, you definitely face one thing – toll plaza. It is not just a tax but has also become a major source of earning of the Government of India. Now the question arises that how many toll plazas are there in the country and how much does they earn every day? You can be shocked to know the answer to this question. Because the toll tax is earning crores every day, which is being used directly to strengthen the infrastructure of the country.

How many toll plazas are there in the country?
According to data released by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, a total of 1,087 toll plazas are active across the country by June 2025. These toll plazas are part of India’s huge 1.5 million km long National Highway Network. However, tolls are not taken on all these roads. Currently about 45,000 km of road network is collected toll. There has been a tremendous increase in the number of toll plazas in the last few years. In the last 5 years, 457 new toll plazas have been built. This increase not only indicates the construction of new roads but is also a result of increasing use of fastag technology across the country.

How much does it earn from toll every day?
If you think that the toll plaza would have earned a minor earning, then you are wrong. According to the data presented in the Lok Sabha, 1,087 toll plaza in the country earns an average of Rs 168.24 crore every day. This figure reaches Rs 61,408.15 crore on an annual basis. This amount is used to maintain roads, new construction and strengthen infrastructure.

Recovery of toll increased due to fastag
Since the implementation of the fastag system, there has been a major improvement in both transparency and efficiency in the toll recovery process. Now the toll plazas are not only saving time through digital payment but problems like toll theft are also effectively curbed. This has a direct impact on the toll collection. If we talk about the data, the toll collection in the year 2019-20 was Rs 27,504 crore, while in the year 2023-24 it has increased to Rs 55,882 crore. That is, in just four years, the earnings from toll have almost doubled. In the last five years, the total toll recovery figure has crossed Rs 1.93 lakh crore, which shows how Fastag has made the country’s toll system stronger and transparent.
The country’s highest -grossing toll plaza
Earning from every toll plaza is not the same. There are some routes in the country from where a large number of vehicles pass and the toll plazas on these routes earn the most. Toll collection is quite high due to industrial traffic, heavy commercial vehicles and high demand travel routes on these routes. Bharthana Toll Plaza is ranked first on the Vadodara-Bharuch section of Gujarat at the highest-grossing toll plaza, which earned Rs 472.65 crore alone in the year 2023-24. After this, Shahjahanpur Toll Plaza in Rajasthan, Jaladulagori toll plaza of West Bengal, Barjor toll plaza in Uttar Pradesh and Gharaunda toll plaza of Haryana come to fifth to fifth position respectively respectively. All these toll plazas earn hundreds of crores of rupees per year, which shows the financial contribution of the country’s highways.

How is India’s road network changing with toll tax?
The use of the amount received from toll collection is not limited to raising revenue only but its main objective is to strengthen the country’s road infrastructure. This amount is used in important tasks such as regular maintenance and repair of roads, construction of new roads and expressways, improvement of road safety and promoting digital tolling systems. This has not only made the journey across the country more comfortable and safe but due to technologies like fastag, passengers are also saving the timely time, which has made road transport more efficient and fast than ever.