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| India will do away with GPS-based toll collection within one-year: Nitin Gadkari | | | Agencies
New Delhi: Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari said on Thursday (March 18) that India will do away with toll booths and implement complete GPS-based toll collection within one year.
During Question Hour in the Lok Sabha, Gadkari said 93 per cent of the vehicles pay toll using FASTag, but the remaining 7 per cent have still not taken it despite paying a double toll.
Nitin Gadkari said, "I want to assure the House that within one year all physical toll booths in the country will be removed. It means that toll collection will happen via GPS. The money will be collected based on GPS imaging (on vehicles)."
Gadkari further said that he has instructed police inquiry for those vehicles which do not pay toll using FASTags. There are cases of toll theft and GST evasion cases if FASTags are not fitted in vehicles.
FASTags, which facilitate electronic payment of fees at toll plazas, was introduced in 2016. From February 16, vehicles without FASTag are required to pay double toll fees at electronic toll plazas across the country.Making the tags compulsory would also help in ensuring that vehicles pass seamlessly through the toll plazas, as the fee payment would be done electronically.
The Union minister said that new vehicles have FasTags fitted in them, while the government has said it will give free FASTags for old vehicles |
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