{"id":172939,"date":"2025-06-10T13:48:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T08:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=172939"},"modified":"2025-06-10T13:48:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T08:18:50","slug":"government-announced-pilot-program-of-anpr-fastag-based-barrier-less-tolling-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/government-announced-pilot-program-of-anpr-fastag-based-barrier-less-tolling-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Government Announced Pilot Program of ANPR-FASTag-based Barrier-Less Tolling System"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) and NHAI have clarified that no satellite-based tolling will be launched from May 1, 2025.<br>Instead, a pilot project of a Barrier-Less Tolling System using ANPR (Automatic Number Plate Recognition) and FASTag (RFID) is being introduced at selected toll plazas.<br>This system aims for seamless toll collection without stopping, with E-notices and penalties for non-compliance. A nationwide rollout will depend on pilot outcomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key Highlights<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Ministry clarifies that there is no plan to replace FASTag with satellite tolling starting 1st May 2025.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A new system combining\u00a0<strong>Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) and the existing FASTag (RFID<\/strong>) system is set to be piloted at selected locations.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The new method enables seamless travel without stopping at toll plazas, as cameras and readers will auto-detect and deduct toll.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Vehicles evading toll or lacking valid FASTag will receive E-Notices.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Penalties may include FASTag suspension or VAHAN-related restrictions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) and NHAI have clarified that no satellite-based tolling will be launched from May 1, 2025.Instead, a pilot project of a Barrier-Less Tolling System using ANPR (Automatic Number Plate Recognition) and FASTag (RFID) is being introduced at selected toll plazas.This system aims for seamless toll collection without stopping, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":172940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5371],"tags":[4916],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-172939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-april-2025","tag-national-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172941,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172939\/revisions\/172941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172939"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=172939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}