Centre to remove toll plazas from all national highways: Report

The Narendra Modi government is mulling to remove toll plazas and replace them with cameras will read number plates. The union ministry of road transport and highways’ plan is remove all the toll plazas on the national highways and rely on Automatic Number Plate Reader (ANPR) cameras, union minister Nitin Gadkari told The Indian Express in an interview.

Gadkari said that the government made a rule in 2019 that all the cars will have company-fitted number plates. “Now, the plan is to remove toll plazas and put cameras, which will read these number plates and toll will be deducted from the account directly,” he told the website.

What exactly is the government’s plan for removing the toll plazas and replacing it with ANPR cameras? Here are five points to explain it.