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The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has amended the All India Tourist Vehicle Permit rules, reducing the maximum period such vehicles can operate outside their home state from 90 days to 60 days. The revised framework, which will take effect in early April, introduces tighter monitoring through vehicle tracking systems, mandatory clearance of unpaid toll dues, and stricter compliance with traffic violations. The move seeks to address repeated misuse of tourist permits, improve passenger safety, and strengthen toll and regulatory compliance across states.
The road transport ministry has notified changes to the All India Tourist Vehicles (Permit) Rules, lowering the permitted duration for tourist vehicles to remain outside their registered home state from 90 days to 60 days. The amendment will be implemented from early April and applies to vehicles operating under the All India Tourist Permit system. Advertisement
As per the revised rules, a tourist vehicle must either start or conclude its journey in its home state and cannot continuously operate beyond the new 60-day limit outside that state. The responsibility for monitoring compliance has been placed on the permit-issuing authority, which will track vehicle movement through command and control centres or approved vehicle location tracking systems installed by authorised agencies.
The amendment also requires the home state to recover any unpaid user fees before issuing or renewing permits. Unpaid user fees refer to toll amounts recorded through electronic toll collection systems where vehicle passage was detected but the applicable toll under the National Highways Act, 1956 was not received.
Operational conditions for tourist vehicles have been reiterated and tightened. These include a clear prohibition on using tourist vehicles as stage carriages, restrictions on picking up or dropping passengers not listed in the approved tourist manifest, and mandatory installation of vehicle tracking devices and emergency alert buttons. Operators must also ensure that there are no pending traffic challans older than 45 days at the time of permit issuance.
In addition, drivers and operators are required to carry route-related documentation, either in physical or electronic form, detailing the origin, destination and states to be traversed during the journey. These measures build on earlier efforts by the ministry to curb long-term misuse of tourist permits, which has been a concern raised by state transport authorities in recent years.
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