Satellite Toll System: If someone travels anywhere in India with his vehicle and he goes from one state to another, then he has to pay toll tax. Toll plazas have been built in India for toll tax, where vehicles have to pay toll tax. There was a time when people had to stand in a line of vehicles and get a slip for toll tax and had to pay toll manually. But now the situation has completely changed.
Fastag is now used for toll tax in India. There is no need to stand in queues for this. Now the scanner installed at the toll plaza scans the fastag installed on your vehicles. And your toll is deducted. But now the news is coming that toll plazas may be closed. Because now the technology of toll deduction from satellite is coming. Let us tell you what are the five big things about this.
GNSS based toll system is going to be implemented
There is going to be a big change in the way toll tax is paid in India. The Government of India is preparing to launch a satellite based toll system. This satellite based system is called GNSS Toll Electronic System i.e. Global Navigation Satellite System. Union Road and Transport Minister of the Government of India, Nitin Gadkari, has also given a statement about this in the Rajya Sabha recently. He said that there is a plan to install GNSS based toll system on some selected national highways in India.
Toll will be deducted from satellite
By implementing the Global Navigation Satellite System, all vehicles will not need to buy Fastag from different banks. Nor will there be the hassle of recharge. The new system will be directly connected to the satellite. For this, a toll booth can be built at a different place. From where the data of all the vehicles passing on the highway will be collected. Toll will be charged according to the distance traveled by the vehicle.
Will toll plazas be abolished?
If the Global Navigation Satellite System is implemented in the whole of India, then there will be no need for physical toll plazas in India. Because there will be no need to stop vehicles for toll collection. And when there will be no need to search for vehicles, then there will be no need for toll plazas either. That means toll plazas can be completely eliminated in the future.
Will work on hybrid model
Let us tell you that the Government of India is going to implement GNSS Global Navigation Satellite System at selected places only. It will work on a hybrid model in India for now. That is, toll will be deducted through Global Navigation Satellite System as well as through Fastag.
Fastag will not be closed
Because there is no planning yet to fully implement the Global Navigation Satellite System in India. There are around 599 national highways in India. So, it is not completely correct to say that the toll plazas will be completely closed. The government is currently thinking of implementing the GNSS toll system on only a few of these highways. That means, toll will continue to be deducted through Fastag on the remaining highways.
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