India, May 3 -- Days after announcing that electric vehicles (EVs) will not be charged a toll on the Mumbai-Nagpur Samruddhi Expressway, the Mumbai-Pune Expressway and the Mumbai Trans Harbour Link or Atal Setu, the Maharashtra government has decided to add the Bandra-Worli Sea Link (BWSL) to the waiver list, too, as part of its new EV policy.

Of the 60,000 vehicles that use the sea link every day, around 8% are EVs, according to officials. While cars and jeeps are charged Rs.100 as a one-way toll on the sea link, buses have to pay Rs.160 and commercial vehicles Rs.210.

"After we exempted EVs from toll on the key expressways, there was a demand for an exemption on the BWSL too. It has been in-principle approved by the government and ann...