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26/08/22 11:25 AM IST

Centre to remove toll plazas from all national highways

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  • The union ministry of road transport and highways' plan is remove all the toll plazas on the national highways and rely on Automatic Number Plate Reader (ANPR) cameras.
ANPR cameras
  • According to the report, the cameras will read the vehicle number plates and automatically deduct toll fee from the bank accounts of the vehicle owners. The entries and exits of the toll roads will have these cameras installed.
  • A big question arises whether all the number plates can be read by these cameras. The answer is that only those number plates that have come after 2019 will be registered by these cameras
  • As mentioned by Gadkari, the Centre had made a rule making it compulsory for the vehicles to have company-fitted number plates.
  •  The government plans to come up with a scheme to replace older number plates in the process, the report said.
  • A pilot of this scheme is underway and legal amendments to facilitate this transition are also being carried out to penalise the owners who don't pay the toll fees.
Source- Hindustan Times 

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