Govt considering monthly or yearly pass for passenger vehicles travelling on national highways: Nitin GadkariUnion Minister Nitin Gadkari announced that the government is considering monthly and yearly passes for private vehicles on National Highwa...
15 Jan, 2025, 08.52 PM IST
Smart mobility company Six Sense Mobility secures Rs 6 crore seed funding from Piper SericaDelhi-based deep-tech smart mobility firm plans to use the funds to increase its team size, build production capacity, and research and dev...
14 Aug, 2024, 11.19 AM IST
Highway tolls to use satellite-based technology soon; Here's how it works and other details?India is set to introduce a new satellite-based toll collection system, a global first. Using GNSS and GPS, this system charges vehicles ba...
07 Jun, 2024, 08.41 PM IST
Highway toll mopup rises 35% to 5-year high of ₹64,810 croreYear-wise, toll collection stood at ₹25,154.76 crore in 2018-19, ₹27,637.64 crore in 2019-20, ₹27,923.80 crore in 2020-21, ₹33,907.72 crore...
11 Apr, 2024, 01.12 AM IST
Road ministry working on mega plan for building 50,000 km of new, access-controlled, expresswaysThe Ministry of Road Transport and Highways is set to unveil a plan for constructing 50,000 km of new expressways by 2037 in the first 100 ...
10 Apr, 2024, 03.28 PM IST
Toll collection on national highways surpassed Rs 50,000 crore till January-end this FYThis fiscal year will see record toll collection of about Rs 62,000 crore aided by increase in tolled roads and addition of new FASTag user...
26 Feb, 2024, 06.45 PM IST
Govt to soon come out with tender for introducing GPS-based highway toll collection system: GadkariThe government plans to introduce a GPS-based highway toll collection system on national highways, replacing toll plazas. Union Minister Ni...
21 Feb, 2024, 10.12 PM IST
Bengaluru-Mysuru highway set to introduce GPS-based no-toll-booth tolling systemIn response to a question by BJP MP Lahar Singh Siroya, Gadkari has stated that the road transport ministry has appointed a consultant to p...
11 Feb, 2024, 08.48 PM IST
Road ministry to bid out BOT projects of up to Rs 2 lakh crore by March 2024: GadkariAddressing the annual conference of Highways Operators Association of India, road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari said the go...
20 Dec, 2023, 08.06 PM IST
Govt to introduce GPS-based toll system in six months to replace toll plazasAddressing an event organised by industry body CII, Gadkari further said state- owned NHAI's toll revenue is currently Rs 40,000 crore and ...
24 Mar, 2023, 02.48 PM IST
Automatic number plate recognition system could replace toll plazas in futureAlthough that is a considerable improvement in the waiting time, at certain locations, especially near cities, and densely populated towns,...
13 Sep, 2022, 05.41 PM IST
Govt working on proposal to build double-decker flyover in Jamshedpur: GadkariThe Centre has also proposed building a double-decker flyover connecting Chennai Port with other vital locations in Tamil Nadu at a cost of...
25 Mar, 2021, 03.09 PM IST
Rs 7 lakh cr being spent on green highways; Rs 60K cr projects in Delhi to curb pollution: Nitin GadkariGadkari said work on Delhi-Amritsar-Katra project is likely to start in two to three months and in the pipeline are Rs 4,063 crore Delhi-Fa...
24 Mar, 2021, 04.03 PM IST
Toll booths to be removed, GPS-based toll collection within 1 year: Nitin Gadkari"I want to assure the House that within one year all physical toll booths in the country will be removed. It means that toll collection wil...
18 Mar, 2021, 01.22 PM IST
In two years, all highway toll plazas will be barrier free: Nitin GadkariWith the help of Russian Government we have accepted the GPS system and in the next two years we will have a toll collection system running...
17 Dec, 2020, 06.27 PM IST
Russian GLONASS launches service for India's transport sectorThe operator for GLONASS based system Platon received a contract for the introduction of a system in India
11 Feb, 2019, 10.55 PM IST
NHAI to conduct pilot run of GPS-based tollingThe pilot project involves implementing a satellite based electronic toll collection system running on GPS/GSM technology on the Delhi Mumb...
07 Feb, 2018, 02.54 PM IST