First unmanned toll plaza to be on Dwarka Expressway, says Nitin Gadkari | Delhi News
Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari said Wednesday said the Ministry of Road 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 information while answering questions in Rajya Sabha about whether the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) proposes to construct or convert the existing toll plazas into unmanned toll plazas in the country and the toll plazas selected at the initial level for the conversion. The Union minister said that it has been decided to first implement a barrier-free Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) system with available technology and existing fee plaza infrastructure at selected sections of National Highways (NH). “Request for Proposal (RFP) to implement the barrier-free tolling system on the project Dwarka Expressway has been invited/floated, with the possibility of implementing it on other fee plazas in a phased manner depending upon the outcomes and efficacy of the implementation on the Dwarka Expressway,” he said. On the expenditure to be incurred …
