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Blog| No more waiting at toll plazas; courtesy: Nitin Gadkari

Nitin Gadkari is an Indian politician and the current Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Shipping and Water Resources in the Government of India. Gadkari has also earlier served as the President of the BJP from 2010-2013.
Recently in an interview, he mentioned that the government has announced its plans to ease toll collection on national highways by bringing in electronic toll collection (ETC) mechanism at all toll plazas starting this December 2018.
To ease toll collection on national highways across the country, all the vehicles coming on road would have a FASTag? on it. As good as 3,500 lanes on national highways would be made FASTag ready in coming two months.
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Some highways have already started the implementation and phase wise rollout is going as planned. Gadkari while stressing on the same, said that this is just one amongst many digitisation and cash-less initiatives of the government.
How this system works ?
Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) system in India uses passive Radio Frequency Identification Technology (RFID).
- RFID tag called FASTag is mounted on the vehicles windscreen.
- As the vehicle reaches the toll plaza, roadside RFID reader reads the tag.
- This unique number is sent to a central computer.
- Applicable toll amount is deducted from a prepaid account that is linked to that particular FASTag.
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This initiative is promised to greatly enhance user experience and enable fuel saving worth Rs 86,000 crore. I am really excited and looking forward to this move by the government as this might ease our traffic woes at the toll plaza and as per promise, save fuel too. But, I wonder if in a nation like India, with so many cars, highways and population, is this even logistically possible. While I remain hopeful yet skeptical at the same time, do let me know what you think of this announcement.
Priyanka Dalmia Acharya is a freelance writer and a blogger, who’s also in the process of writing a book. Shes also an avid reader of fiction and non-fiction books.
(The opinions and views expressed in the blog are solely of the individual and not of the publication.)
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Nitin Gadkari graces screening of ‘Me Vasantrao’ at Sudama Theatre in Nagpur
Union Minister Nitin Gadkari graced the special screening of Marathi movie ‘Me Vasantrao’ – a movie based on the life of Hindustani classical singer and violinist Vasantrao Deshpande.
The screening was held at Sudama Theatre in Nagpur on Sunday evening in the presence family members, friends and the cast of the movie.
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Mayor Dayashankari Tiwari kicks off polio drive in Nagpur
Nagpur Mayor Dayashankar Tiwari, on Sunday, launched Nagpur Municipal Corporation’s (NMC) door-to-door polio campaign drive. He, along with Deputy Mayor Manisha Dhawade visited Rognidan Centre in Mahal, Nagpur and inaugurated the campaign by giving polio drops to a toddler.
As per NMC officials, ten Zonal Medical Officers and Ten Health inspectors would visit every house in their respective zones, in order to vaccinate children between the ages of zero-five to immune them against polio.
NMC had recognised Sunday as the official day for polio vaccination. Under Polio Ravivar, they plan to vaccinate more than three lakh kids in Nagpur. They also urged Nagpurkars to vaccinate their children at pulse Polio Booths near their homes from 8 am- 5 pm, on Sunday.
NMC Standing Committee Chief, Corporator Vijay Zalke spoke to Nation Next regarding this campaign and said, This year’s polio drive is going to be bigger than last year. We are planning to vaccinate around 3- 3.15 lakh kids. NMC is bearing the cost of infrastructure and execution. The state government provided us with the doses.
He further stated that there were special teams to vaccinate the homeless during night. ?When it comes to the health of Nagpurkars, money is not a factor we should think about, said Zalke when asked about NMC’s current financial crunch.
As per Zalke, vaccination facility would also be available in slums,, factory areas and other outskirts of Nagpur.
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Congress legislator caught watching porn in Karnataka Assembly
Congress leader Prakash Rathod, on Friday, was caught on camera while allegedly scrolling through few adult content clips in the State Assembly. This turned out to be a huge embarrassment for both, Congress and Rathod as regional channels aired the video, in which he was ?caught in the act.
The MLC member was present in the house during the proceedings of the legislative council. While the house was in session, Rathod was watching adult content on his smartphone.
However, he threw these charges under the bus and said, I was looking for materials for a question I wanted to ask the government in question hour.
?When I was looking for question material, I deleted too many messages as my phone storage was full. What the media has shown or seen, I don’t know. I would never do such things or see such things, he added.
This was not the first time in Karnataka that such an incident had happened. Back in 2012, three Bharatiya Janata Party ministers were caught on camera allegedly watching adult content in the State Assembly. Following the scandal, they resigned from the state government due to public embarrassment.
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