India, March 28 -- Toll plazas on national highways will soon be history as India prepares to shift to a new toll collection system which will make them redundant. Union Minister Nitin Gadkari has said that toll barriers will be replaced by satellite-based toll collection which will use GPS and camera to deduct fees from vehicles. The new toll collection system, which Gadkari said will implemented from March this year, is expected to start by summer this year. Currently a pilot run of the new GPS-based toll collection is underway to test its feasibility.

The new toll collection system will deduct fees directly from the user's bank account. The amount of toll will depend on the distance a vehicle has travelled. All these information will ...