Electronic tolling across 300 national highways from April 1

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The Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) system's radio frequency identification reader overlooks highway traffic at Krishnagiri toll plaza (file photo).

Electronic tolling to start across 300 national highways from April 1 with users getting 10 per cent discount on toll charges for the first year.

NHAI expects the project to take off with users getting a discount, and issuing banks getting a certain percentage of collections from toll fee as well as the developers. Tags will be sold from April 1. ICICI Bank, SBI and Axis are the first lot of banks to sell the tags.

Published on March 18, 2016 10:03