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'Ending Toll Plazas On Highways', Says Gadkari | How Will The New GPS Based Toll System Work?

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!

30 Mar 2024
News

Covid-19 lockdown: NHAI to suspend toll collections till 14 April

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

1 min read26 Mar 2020
News

11 mn FASTags issued till date for electronic toll collection on national highways

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

2 min read24 Dec 2019
Market

Roads sector: Toll collections set to surge, but risks loom for developers

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

2 min read19 Jan 2019
Politics

Payments using FASTags at petrol pumps, parking lots soon

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

1 min read7 Jan 2019
Industry

NHAI seeks to auction 1,720km of highways

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

3 min read20 Feb 2018
Industry

Nitin Gadkari rules out toll tax waiver, cites fund shortage

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

1 min read2 Jan 2018
Industry

Govt sets October deadline for making all highway toll lanes digitally enabled

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

2 min read2 Aug 2017
Politics

Govt aims to leverage technology to reduce logistics costs

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

3 min read12 Jun 2017
Market

A bumpy ride for road construction firms

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

2 min read16 Jan 2017