FASTag To Be A Thing Of Past? Gadkari Says Cameras To Read Number Plate & Deduct Toll

in news •  2 years ago 

New Delhi: After the fruitful execution of FASTag, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways is anticipating carry out one more framework that would make cost assortment significantly more quicker, affirmed Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari.
The priest, in a meeting with the Indian Express, said that the public authority is pushing forward with an arrangement to eliminate cost courts across India's public roadways and on second thought, depend on programmed number plate peruser cameras, which will peruse vehicle number plates and naturally deduct cost from the connected ledgers of vehicle proprietors. The priest added that a pilot project is as of now set up and the lawful revisions to work with this exchange are being moved. "In 2019, we made a standard that vehicles will accompany organization fitted number plates. In this way, the vehicles that have come over the most recent four years have different number plates.

Presently, the arrangement is to eliminate cost squares and put cameras, which will peruse these number plates and cost will be deducted from the record straightforwardly. We are likewise doing a pilot of this plan", said Union Minister Nitin Gadkari. In any case, the clergyman likewise said that the shortfall of a regulation to punish a vehicle proprietor who skirts the cost court is an issue and an arrangement should be brought under the law. The IE report likewise said as of now, 97% of the absolute cost assortment, adding up to almost Rs 40,000 crore, occurs through FASTags. It likewise refered to government information appearing with FASTag, it requires roughly 47 seconds for a vehicle to cross a cost court. A total redesign in the cost assortment framework is without a doubt a Herculean undertaking, yet FASTag was a major change which India embraced absent a lot of hiccups being accounted for. With ideal execution considering all the disturbing elements, India can walk into the future decisively.

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