Toll Collection News

Union transport Minister Nitin Gadkari has announced that the government is ending the current tolling system on highways, and satellite based toll collection will be introduced soon. This will first be implemented on select sections of national highways for testing. But how exactly will this system work, when will it be implemented and how's it different from the FASTags that are already being used? Watch!

Maintenance of roads and availability of emergency services at toll plazas will continue In India, cases have surged past 650, with number of deaths at 13

The daily electronic toll collection has touched about ₹46 crore, an NHAI official said NHAI started the toll collection through RFID-based FASTags on its 523 toll plazas across the country from 15 Dec

Toll rate revisions are linked partly to the wholesale price index (WPI) So far this year, the index has risen 4.7%, higher than the 3% growth in FY18

Nitin Gadkari has launched new FASTags that can now be linked to bank accounts. These will be available at select 50 petrol pumps initially

Auctioning of toll collection by the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) is expected to fetch the government around Rs15,000 crore

If people want good services they will have to pay for that, says roads minister Nitin Gadkari ruling out any toll tax waivers at national highways

Currently, while a majority of the toll plazas on national highways are electronic toll collection-enabled, only one or a maximum of two lanes at each toll plaza has the facility

Plan involves leveraging technology to set up a logistics architecture on the lines of Aadhaar and linking it to the GST database

The fortnight of toll-free days in November following demonetisation forced analysts to cut revenue growth estimates