Toll cubicles to be eliminated, GPS-based toll assortment inside 1 12 months: Gadkari

India will put off toll cubicles and implement full GPS-based toll assortment inside one 12 months, Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari stated on Thursday.
He stated 93 per cent of the autos pay toll utilizing FASTag, however the remaining 7 per cent have nonetheless not taken it regardless of paying a double toll.
“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 stated within the Lok Sabha throughout Question Hour.

The minister stated he has instructed police inquiry for these autos which don’t pay toll utilizing FASTags. There are circumstances of toll theft and GST evasion circumstances if FASTags will not be fitted in autos.
FASTags, which facilitate digital cost of payment at toll plazas, was launched in 2016.

From February 16, autos with out FASTag are required to pay double toll payment at digital toll plazas throughout the nation.
Making the tags obligatory would additionally assist in making certain that autos go seamlessly via the toll plazas, because the payment cost could be accomplished electronically.
Gadkari stated new autos have FasTags fitted in them, whereas the federal government has stated it would give free FASTags for previous autos.