All toll plazas in the country will be removed, and tolls charges will instead be collected through a GPS-based system within a year Nitin Gadkari, the Minister for Road Transport and Highways announced in the Lok Sabha on Thursday. The union minister said that all new vehicles being sold are being fitted with GPS trackers, and the government will provide them for free to owners of older vehicles who do not have one. Gadkari made this statement while replying to a series of questioned raised by Kunwar Danish Ali, a Lok Sabha member from the Bahujan Samaj Party. Ali had talked about a town in Uttar Pradesh where the toll plaza could be found in the middle of the municipality, and hence was causing problems for its people. Gadkari, in response, admitted to the existence of such toll plazas and blamed it on previous governments. In any case, all toll plazas are going to be removed in the country within a year, he said. Gadkari also commented on FASTag, the RFID tags mandated on all vehicles in the country. He said that adoption of the tags has reached 93%, a little higher than what his ministry had claimed in a Parliamentary answer earlier this month. He said that FASTag had helped address "theft" in the system. He added that the remaining 7% owners had not yet adopted FASTag for the sole purpose of not wanting to be tracked. I have instructed for police investigation into that, he said. Transcript of…
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All tolls plazas will be removed in one year, replaced by GPS-based system: Nitin Gadkari in Parliament
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