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The Road Ministry today said that by the end of this year, all national highways will have electronic toll collection system in at least one lane in all toll plazas.
This will ensure that with an electronic tag attached on vehicles, drivers can zoom across national highways with automatic, electronic toll payment without having to stop and pay cash to toll booths.
There are 302 toll plazas on national highways now, of which about 95 are under the public funded national highways.
"We have already placed orders to install electronic toll plazas at 20 public funded roads. In the remaining 75, they will be installed soon," Vijay Chhibber, secretary, Road Transport Ministry, said.
National Highways collected Rs 11,387 crore as toll in fiscal 2013-14. Of this, Rs 3,398 crore was collected on public or government funded roads.
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