Union minister of state of Road Transport, Highways, Dr. Tushar A. Chaudhary in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha Thursday informed that a new national permit system was implemented by Centre with effect from May 8, 2010.
Chaudhary said, in order to facilitate inter-state movement of goods carriages. As per the new arrangement, national permit can be granted by the home State on payment of `1,000/- as home State authorization fee and `15,000/- per annum per truck towards consolidated fee authorizing the permit holder to operate throughout the country.
He said the government has also taken necessary steps to implement the new national permit system electronically with effect from September 15, 2010. The consolidated fee collected by the Central Government through State Bank of India is distributed among the States/Union Territories on a prorata basis.
According to an official communiqué, under the new national permit scheme, the consolidated fee is being distributed among the States/Union Territories on the basis of an agreed formula which is based upon the average composite fee received by the States/Union Territories during the years 2007-08, 2008-09 and 2009-10. Share of States/Union Territories in every `15,000/- collected towards consolidated fee for national permit has been notified vide S.O. 1848 (E) dated July 28,2010.