No toll booths, GPS-based collection in year: Gadkari

* Money to be collected via GPS imaging | Step to allow seamless movement

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, March 18

India will do away with toll booths and implement complete GPS-based toll collection within one year, said Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari today.

He said 93 per cent of the vehicles pay toll using FASTags, but the remaining 7 per cent had still not taken it despite 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 of the vehicle,” he said during the question hour.

Gadkari said he had instructed police inquiry for those vehicles which do not pay toll using FASTags. FASTag, which facilitates electronic payment of fee at toll plazas, was introduced in 2016.

Vehicles without FASTags are required to pay double charges.

Making the tags compulsory would also help in ensuring that vehicles pass seamlessly through the toll plazas, as the fee payment would be done electronically, he said