Uttarakhand to Levy Green Tax on Out-of-State Vehicles Starting December

According to officials, starting in December, green taxes would be collected from cars travelling from other states to Uttarakhand. Officials say the decision is intended to keep the state clean, safeguard the environment, and limit pollution. This tax will start to be collected in December.

ANPR Cameras to Act as a Scanner

Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras placed at the state’s borders will record the registration numbers of approaching cars, according to State Additional Transport Commissioner Sanat Kumar Singh. According to him, there are now 37 cameras in the border areas, up from the initial 16 that were put there. According to Singh, a vendor company has been chosen by the transport department to collect the green tax.

How Green Tax’s Eco-System will Work?

Singh stated that the vendor will get the camera data via software, which will then separate the data pertaining to government, two-wheeler, and Uttarakhand-registered vehicles and send it to the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) database.

He explained that after that, the wallet numbers of the car owners would be looked up, and the appropriate sum would be automatically taken out and placed into the transport department’s account. Various vehicle classifications have different tax rates: buses pay INR 140, trucks pay between INR 120 and INR 700, depending on their weight, small vehicles pay INR 80, small cargo vehicles pay INR 250, and trucks pay INR 140.