Union Street Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari mentioned Wednesday mentioned the Ministry of Street Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has floated a request for a proposal to implement barrier-free tolling on Dwarka Expressway, which connects Delhi’s Dwarka to Gurgaon in Haryana.
Gadkari shared the data whereas answering questions in Rajya Sabha about whether or not the Nationwide Freeway Authority of India (NHAI) proposes to assemble or convert the prevailing toll plazas into unmanned toll plazas within the nation and the toll plazas chosen on the preliminary stage for the conversion. The Union minister mentioned that it has been determined to first implement a barrier-free Digital Toll Assortment (ETC) system with out there expertise and current price plaza infrastructure at chosen sections of Nationwide Highways (NH).
“Request for Proposal (RFP) to implement the barrier-free tolling system on the venture Dwarka Expressway has been invited/floated, with the potential for implementing it on different price plazas in a phased method relying upon the outcomes and efficacy of the implementation on the Dwarka Expressway,” he mentioned.
On the expenditure to be incurred on the venture, Gadkari mentioned it’s anticipated that the price of operating a bodily consumer price plaza might be lowered through the use of a barrier-free consumer price assortment system.
The 29-km-long Dwarka Expressway — 18.9 km (lengthwise) in Haryana and the remaining 10.1 km in Delhi — begins from Shiv-Murti on Nationwide Freeway 8 and ends close to the Kherki Daula toll plaza. The Gurgaon portion was thrown open after Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated it in March this 12 months. The venture, which is being constructed at the price of about Rs 10,000 crore, is at present proposed to attach Sector 21 in Dwarka to NH-8 passing via Sectors 88, 84, 83, and 99-113 in Gurgaon together with the proposed World Metropolis, earlier than ending at NH-8 forward of the Kherki Daula toll plaza.
This comes on the heels of the ministry’s modification in July this 12 months of the Nationwide Highways Charge (Dedication of Charges and Assortment) Guidelines, 2008, to incorporate provisions referring to World Navigation Satellite tv for pc System (GNSS)-based digital toll assortment. GNSS will enable toll or freeway consumer charges to be collected with out stopping the car at a toll sales space increase barrier for the FASTag barcode to be learn.
In accordance with MoRTH, as of March 2024, greater than 98 per cent of consumer price funds at toll plazas have been being made via FASTag. The toll is collected for roughly 45,000 km of Nationwide Highways and expressways via 1,200 toll plazas maintained by NHAI or concessionaires.
