All tolls will be removed in a year, GPS tracker will be installed on the highway: Nitin Gadkari

- In the new scheme, you will have to pay the same toll as you use

New delhi date. Thursday, March 18, 2021

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari made a huge announcement in the Lok Sabha on Thursday. Gadkari said the government was working on a plan to remove all toll plazas in the next one year. In the near future, with the help of technology, people will have to pay as much toll as they use the road.

In fact, BSP MP from Amroha Kunwar Danish Ali had raised the issue of having a toll plaza on the road near Garh Mukteshwar within the municipal boundary. In his reply, Nitin Gadkari said that the previous government had built several toll plazas on the border of the town to add more cream to the contract of the road project which was definitely wrong and unjust. Now if he goes to remove the toll plaza, the road construction company will demand compensation. But the government plans to end all toll plazas in the country in the next one year.

The Union Minister said that the end of the toll meant the end of the toll plaza. The government is working on a technology in which the camera will take a photo of you from where you get on the highway with the help of GPS and take a photo from where you get off, thus paying the toll for the same distance.

Notably, the issue of traffic jams caused by toll plazas for a long time is being raised. Recently, the central government introduced Fastag facility on all national highways so that vehicles can automatically pay tolls at toll plazas without getting stuck in line.