Dwarka Expressway Toll Charges and Cost per km: 2026 Rates, CAG Report and Delhi-Gurgaon Toll History

Dwarka Expressway toll charges in 2026

Dwarka Expressway stopped being free in November 2025, when NHAI began collecting at the new Bijwasan plaza near the Delhi-Haryana border. After the annual revision on 1 April 2026, a car pays ₹225 for a single trip and ₹340 for a return there. At Kherki Daula, the older plaza on the Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway, a car pays ₹100 one way and ₹150 return.

The two plazas are linked. The road ministry's rule, reported when tolling began, is that if you cross Bijwasan first you pay there and are not charged again at Kherki Daula on the same trip. If you cross Kherki Daula first, you pay the difference at Bijwasan. So a car driving the full corridor from Delhi into Gurugram and out past Kherki Daula pays the Bijwasan rate once, not both.

Regular users have two cheaper options. A 50-trip monthly pass costs ₹7,550 at Bijwasan and ₹3,320 at Kherki Daula. Residents within 20 km can get a local monthly pass for ₹350, up from ₹340 at launch, which works out to about ₹7 a trip and is why that number keeps appearing on social media. You need address proof matching the area and a FASTag linked to the vehicle. Commercial vehicles registered in the same district were reported to pay ₹50 a trip at Bijwasan from April 2026.

What do buses, trucks and commercial vehicles pay?

We could not verify the Bijwasan rates for light commercial vehicles, buses, trucks and multi-axle vehicles from NHAI's own fee notice, because NHAI's toll information site was not reachable when we checked in October 2026. Several property blogs publish a full vehicle-class table, but we do not reproduce rates we cannot trace to NHAI or a named news report.

What is on record: NHAI said overloaded vehicles would pay up to 10 times the normal toll, and the April 2026 report gives the ₹50 same-district rate for commercial vehicles at Bijwasan. For buses at Ghamdoj on Sohna Road, the same report gives ₹440 per crossing. If you run a fleet, check the plaza's posted rate board or NHAI's Rajmargyatra app before budgeting.

How Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway toll charges have changed

The car toll at Kherki Daula has gone up steadily. In March 2021 private cars paid ₹65 and NHAI approved ₹70 from 1 April 2021, under the terms of its contract with the concessionaire. By November 2025 the rate was ₹80 with no return-trip discount. When Bijwasan opened it rose to ₹95 one way with a ₹145 same-day return, and in April 2026 to ₹100 and ₹150.

This plaza has always been political. In 2021 a New Gurugram residents' group said over 20,000 families in Sectors 82 to 95 paid toll just to reach the rest of their own city, and the plaza handled some 75,000 vehicles on an average day. The CAG report notes that around 2017 a car paid ₹60 there.

Why the Sirhaul toll plaza was removed

Until February 2014 the Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway had three toll plazas: six lanes at IGI Airport, 18 lanes at Kherki Daula and 32 lanes at Sirhaul on the Delhi border. Sirhaul was the famous bottleneck, and it was also the money-maker. In 2012-13 it collected close to ₹120 crore of the ₹198 crore of toll taken on the expressway in a year.

After years of litigation and a settlement supervised by the Delhi High Court, the Sirhaul and IGI plazas were removed from the midnight of 20 February 2014. Lenders led by IDFC took over the 27.7 km road from the original concessionaire, and Kherki Daula became the only plaza, with the expectation that its rates would rise to make up the loss. The original build-operate-transfer concession, awarded in 2002, ran until 2023.

That history explains a point the CAG raised later. Moving the toll to Kherki Daula meant drivers between Delhi and Gurugram on NH-48 rode free for a decade. Linking Bijwasan and Kherki Daula into one tolled loop brings them back into the toll net.

Dwarka Expressway cost per km and the CAG report

The CAG's performance audit of Bharatmala Pariyojana Phase I, Report No. 19 of 2023, tabled in August 2023, is where the cost row started. It says NHAI approved four Dwarka Expressway packages between January and March 2018 with a civil cost of ₹7,287.29 crore for 29.06 km. That is ₹250.77 crore per km, against the ₹18.20 crore per km that the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs had approved for the national corridor programme it was built under.

The CAG's main objection was design. In Haryana, where the road runs 19 km, NHAI had a 90 metre right of way, which the CAG said was enough for a 14-lane road at ground level. NHAI instead built an eight-lane elevated carriageway over a six-lane road at grade. The CAG also said NHAI planned to buy back the Kherki Daula concession for an estimated ₹500 crore, adding to the cost.

The road ministry rejected the comparison. It said ₹18.20 crore per km was a normative figure for planning the programme, not an approved cost for each project, and that projects heavy with bridges, viaducts and tunnels averaged ₹152 crore per km. It put the approved civil cost of the four packages at ₹206.39 crore per km and the awarded cost at ₹181.94 crore per km, and pointed to a 3.8 km eight-lane tunnel and India's first four-level interchange. It also said building at grade would have cut the cost from ₹5,269 crore to ₹4,000 crore but produced a weaker road.

Dwarka Expressway length, lanes and total cost

The official cost figures are higher than the CAG's civil cost because they cover the whole project. The Prime Minister's Office put the 19 km Haryana section at about ₹4,100 crore when it opened on 11 March 2024, and the 10.1 km Delhi section at about ₹5,360 crore when it opened on 17 August 2025. Together that is about 29.1 km and ₹9,460 crore, roughly ₹325 crore per km on our arithmetic.

A July 2020 government release had described a 30 km road costing over ₹8,000 crore. For lanes, the CAG describes the design as eight elevated lanes plus six at grade, 14 in all. Both are useful for a buyer: this is a heavy, grade-separated road, and it is now expensive to drive on unless you live close enough for the local pass.

How much traffic was the road built for?

The feasibility study quoted by the CAG counted an average of 3,11,041 vehicles a day on NH-48 between Delhi and Gurugram, of which 2,88,391, or 92.72%, were passenger vehicles. Only 55,432 passenger vehicles a day (2018) went on past the Kherki Daula plaza. The other 2,32,959, about 80.78%, were local trips between Delhi and Gurugram.

That is the CAG's sharpest point: the eight elevated lanes serve longer-distance traffic, while the bigger local flow uses the six lanes at grade. For a resident of Sectors 99 to 113, it means the at-grade service road matters as much as the elevated deck. NHAI has also invited bids for barrier-free tolling on the expressway, which Nitin Gadkari told the Rajya Sabha about in December 2024; if it goes live, plaza queues should go but the charge will stay.