Nitin Gadkari's advice to highway agencies: ‘Shouldn’t charge toll if roads are not…'

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday asserted that highway agencies should not charge tolls for poor-quality roads. “If you don't provide good quality service, you should not charge a toll,” the BJP leader said at a global workshop on satellite-based tolling, which will be implemented over 5,000 km this financial year.

“We are in a hurry to start tolling to collect user fees and protect our interest. You should collect the user fee where you provide the best quality road. If you collect toll on roads with potholes, mud, then there will be a backlash from people,” the road and transport minister said as quoted by PTI.

The state-owned NHAI intends to introduce a GNSS-based Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) system within the current FASTag framework, initially adopting a hybrid approach that will simultaneously utilize both RFID-based ETC and GNSS-based ETC.

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Nitin Gadkari's advice to highway agencies: ‘Shouldn’t charge toll if roads are not…' (msn.com)