Toll booths to be removed in a year, to be replaced by GPS-based collection

Nitin Gadkari on Thursday said during the Question Hour in Lok Sabha that toll plazas will be replaced by GPS-based toll collection system from next year.

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday said that all physical toll booths in the country will be removed within a year. The Road Transport and Highways Minister said during the Question Hour in Lok Sabha that toll plazas will be replaced by GPS-based (Global Positioning System) toll collection system from next year by which money would be collected based on GPS imaging on vehicles.

Mr Gadkari said that since the introduction of the FASTag, 93 percent of the vehicles pay toll with the help of it but the rest 7 percent still use the earlier method of paying tolls. Such vehicles which do not use FASTag, pay double the toll fee as part of fine levied by the NHAI.

The FASTag mechanism was introduced in 2016 and the Centre had said that from February 16, 2021 vehicles who are not using the FASTag mechanism will have to pay double the toll fee across the country.