No additional passenger, road tax for plying taxis, autos across NCR

The Union Ministry of Urban Development today said that taxi operators holding National Capital Region (NCR) permits and operating on compressed natural gas (CNG) were not required to pay any additional passenger or road tax while entering other States in the National Capital Region (NCR).

An official press release said this had been conveyed by the NCR Planning Board for the information of the general public and taxi operators in the region.

The NCR constitutes the whole of Delhi and the districts of Faridabad, Gurgaon, Rohtak, Sonepat, Rewari, Jhajjar, Mewat, Palwal and Panipat in Haryana; districts of Meerut, Ghaziabad, Gautam Buddha Nagar, Bulandshahar and Baghpat in Uttar Pradesh and Alwar district of Rajasthan.

According to the NCR Board, one of the policy proposals of the Regional Plan-2021 for the NCR is unrestricted movement of Contract Carriage like taxis, and auto-rickshaws within NCR. This policy is important to facilitate general public commuting between Delhi and the rest of NCR and passengers who board/alight at the airport, railway stations and bus stations in Delhi and have to hire taxi/ auto rickshaw to reach their place of residence/ work outside Delhi but within NCR.

The "Reciprocal Common Transport Agreement among Governments of Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh of NCR for unrestricted movement of vehicles in NCR" for Contract Carriage was signed on 14.10.08 and its implementation is underway by the State Governments of NCR Constituent States.

According to NCR Board, under this agreement, "NCR Taxis" have started plying in the NCR region.

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