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Union Minister Nitin Gadkari connected Thursday (December 4, 2025) said the existent strategy of toll postulation volition travel to an extremity wrong a twelvemonth and an physics strategy volition instrumentality its place, ensuring a seamless acquisition for road users.
The caller strategy has been rolled retired successful 10 places and volition beryllium extended crossed the state wrong a year, the Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari said successful Lok Sabha during Question Hour.
"This toll strategy volition end. There volition beryllium nary 1 to halt you successful the sanction of toll. Within a year, an physics toll postulation volition beryllium implemented crossed the country," Mr. Gadkari said.
Mr. Gadkari besides said that presently 4,500 road projects worthy ₹10 lakh crore are ongoing crossed the country.
According to an authoritative connection precocious released, the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has developed the National Electronic Toll Collection (NETC) program, a unified, interoperable level for physics toll payments, to streamline toll postulation crossed India's highways.
At the halfway of NETC is FASTag, a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) based instrumentality affixed to a vehicle's windscreen.
It allows toll payments to beryllium made automatically from the user's linked relationship without stopping astatine the plaza.
