The central government is now working on a plan to remove toll plazas on national highways. Road Transport and National Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari said that the pilot project of this scheme is going on. Under this, instead of toll plazas, automatic cameras will be installed on the highway, which will read the number plates of the vehicles and deduct the toll.
The central government is now working on a plan to remove toll plazas on national highways. Road Transport and National Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari said that the pilot project of this scheme is going on. Under this, instead of toll plazas, automatic cameras will be installed on the highway, which will automatically read the number plates of the vehicles. Along with this, the toll will be automatically deducted from the bank account linked by the car owners.
Camera will read the number plate Nitin Gadkari said, in 2019, we have made a rule that cars will come with company-fitted number plates. Vehicles that have arrived in the last four years have different number plates. Now the plan is to replace the toll plazas with cameras, which will read these number plates and the toll will be deducted directly from the user’s account. However, there is one problem with this scheme and that is that there is no provision to penalize the drivers who do not pay at the toll plaza. We need to make legal provision for this. We can bring a provision for those cars which do not have these number plates.
According to government data from toll plazas , about 97 percent of the total toll collection of around Rs 40,000 crore currently comes through FASTags. The remaining 3 per cent people pay more than the toll rates for not using FASTags. With FASTags, it takes around 47 seconds per vehicle to cross a toll plaza. More than 260 vehicles per hour are removed through electronic toll collection lanes as against 112 vehicles per hour through manual toll collection lanes.
Because of this, more time is taken at toll plazas
FASTags have been made mandatory from February 16, 2021. However, at times people with low balance enter the toll plaza lane, which makes the process more time consuming. Sometimes internet connectivity issues also cause delays. There are two reasons for this, one is the breakdown of the radio frequency identification reader and tag and secondly, the user misplaced the FASTags.
By 2024, 26 green expressways will be built, Gadkari said, the central government is working continuously to improve the roads and highways in the country. To give convenience to the people, such expressways are being made, which save time during the journey. By 2024, 26 green expressways will be built in the country by the central government. These will reduce both distance and time between major cities.
