Mr.Nitin Gadkari further said, said the Transport Ministry is also looking at several new technologies to replace toll plazas in order to reduce traffic snarls at these points.
Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkar on Wednesday addressing the Rajya Sabha said that the government will construct 26 green express highways by 2024 and bring down travel time between key cities across the country.
Once the highways are completed, travel time from Delhi to Dehradun, Haridwar, and Jaipur will be reduced to two hours, the union minister said. Assuring that Indian roads will be like those of the USA the BJP leader said “Delhi to Chandigarh will take two-and-a-half hours, Delhi to Amritsar four hours, and you will be able to do Delhi-Mumbai in 12 hours. By 2024, I guarantee that roads in India will be like those in the United States.”
Mr.Nitin Gadkari further said, said the Transport Ministry is also looking at several new technologies to replace toll plazas in order to reduce traffic snarls at these points.
Informing the upper house that the government is looking at two new options for toll collection, the the65-year-old politician said, the first is a satellite-based system, through which GPS in a vehicle will help toll to be directly deducted from the vehicle owner’s bank account. “The other option is the numberplate,” he said. Mr. Gadkari further said, “From 2019, we started the new numberplate with a new technology.… There will be a computerized system by which we can use the software, and we will collect toll.”
He said the system will register the point where a vehicle enters a toll highway, and thereafter register the point where it exits it; the toll will be deducted from the owner’s account for the kilometers the car is driven on the highway. He said the ministry is yet to zero in on the technology to be used but it will be selected “as early as possible — within a month”.
Highlighting that Fast Tag an electronic toll collection system — has contributed “immensely” to toll collection, Mr. Gadkari said 5.56 crore FASTags have been issued to date, and the average daily toll collection through FASTag is Rs 120 crore.
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