All private as well as commercial vehicles have started paying toll while crossing the toll plaza set up at Kandra at the fag-end of the Tata-Kandra Road at Adityapur in the adjoining Seraikela-Kharsawan district.

The road construction department (RCD), Jharkhand, has notified the toll rates to be effective from March 8 for the vehicle operators on the toll road.

 Executive engineer, RCD's Seraikela division Dinesh Kumar Rajak said that all vehicles, except two-wheelers are being charged toll at the Kandra-based toll plaza for riding through the Tata-Kandra Road.

Rajak said separate notice boards displaying the rates have been put up for the

convenience of the commuters.

The  car, jeep and other light vehicles, including three-wheelers, the toll of a single ride is Rs 15, Rs 25 and Rs 505.  For light commercial vehicles, including mini-bus the toll is Rs 25, Rs 35 and Rs 815.  For bus and trucks, the rate is Rs 50, Rs 75 and Rs 1,705, for heavy vehicles like trucks starting from three axle to six axle vehicles, the toll is Rs 80, Rs 120 and Rs 2,675. Similarly, for the heavy vehicles having seven axles or more the toll for a single ride will be Rs 100, return ride Rs 145 and monthly Rs 3,255.

 A lucknow-based firm, Balaji Enterprises has bagged the tender of toll collection from the Tata Kandra Road for two years. The firm will have to pay Rs 5 crores to the RCD per year and in this connection an agreement has been inked on February 13 after the  tender for the toll collection was finalised in favour of the firm.

The 15.3 kms-long Tata-Kandra Road in adjoining Seraikela-Kharsawan linking Jamshedpur was set up at a cost of Rs 185 crore on PPP basis. 

As per the agreement, the department has to pay Rs 22 crore to JARDCl, the company that built the road, every six months.

Notably, over 2,000 heavy vehicles, including trailers, vans and other mode of vehicles every day-round-the-clock to Kandra-Tata four lane which is the artery of Adityapur industrial hub, linking to steel city of Jamshedpur on the one hand and NH-33 on the other hand through the Kandra-Chandil road.

The ambitious Adityapur-Kandra four-lane project linking the steel city of Jamshedpur with that of Adityapur industrial area in the adjoining Seraikela-Kharsawan district, had begun in April 2011.