All 360 toll plazas in India to have e-tolling system by April

Union Minister for Shipping, Highways and Road Transport Shri Nitin Gadkari announced that e-Tolling system on all the 360 toll plazas in the country will be operational by April this year.

Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) will be formed to implement this project.

. ETC determines whether the cars passing are enrolled in the program, alerts enforcers for those that are not, and electronically debits the accounts of registered car owners without requiring them to stop.

The introduction of e-tolling will reduce waiting time at toll plazas and save cost and fuel.

In 1959, Nobel Economics Prize winner William Vickrey was the first to propose a system of electronic tolling for theWashington Metropolitan Area.