No more road taxes for NCR taxis

Under the Regional Plan 2021, the NCR planning Board has done away with the additional/ road tax for NCR taxis

GN Bureau | August 25, 2010



Taxis with national capital region (NCR) permit and operating on compressed natural gas (CNG) will now be exempt from road taxes while plying the NCR roads.

The NCR planning board on Wednesday said that the various taxes will now be discontinued in keeping with its goal of unrestricted movemenmt of contract carriage including taxis and autorickshaws.

At present there are around 1, 000 NCR taxis.

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

Unrestricted movement of contract carriage including taxis and auto-rickshaws within NCR was one of the policy proposals of the Regional Plan-2021 for the National Capital Region (NCR) prepared by the NCR planning board.
 

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