Highway Toll Rs 193 Cr / day : Peanuts !

 

 

 

Context :

FASTag toll collection hits record ₹193.15 crore in a day with 1.16 crore transactions    ……  BL  /  02 May 2023

Extract :

Toll collection on national highways (NHs) through the FASTag system hit a record ₹193.15 crore in a day recording 1.16 crore transactions, a development that reflects on the growing traffic on highways and rising income for operators.

On April 29, the daily toll collection through FASTag achieved a historic milestone, reaching an all-time high collection of ₹193.15 crore with 1.16 crore transactions recorded in a single day , NHAI said

 

Four states make up bulk of toll revenue in road-building sign

( Mint  /  11  Feb 2023 )

Extract :

The data from MoRTH indicates that toll collection in FY23 is set to cross the highest levels in the past five years reaching close to ₹40,000 crore in FY23.

Minister of Road Transport Nitin Gadkari has said toll revenue is set to rise to over ₹1.4 trillion ( Rs  140,000 Cr ) , in the next three years due to the fast-paced development of highway projects that include about 35,000 km of roads being built under Bharatmala project.

The increased toll collection is also a result of the implementation of the Fastag project that facilitates automatic charge for toll roads. This has eased the toll collection process while improving compliance on highways.

 

My  Take :

Ø  Accelerating Transport with Omnipresent RFID …………….. 09  July 2021

 

Extract :

Dear Gadkariji / Piyush Goyalji :

 

RFID is helping reduce / eliminate GST TAX EVASION on the highways ( as seen above )

By making RFID compulsory for payment of Highway Toll tax, it is helping TAX

 INCREASE, as can be seen from following figures of Highway Toll tax collected

 ( Rs Crore / month ):

#   Nov 2019……………      773

#   Dec 2019……………….1,257  

#   Feb 2020……………… 1,841

#   July  2020……………  1,623

#   Dec 2020……………   2,303

#   Feb 2021……………….2,556

( source : https://factly.in/data-can-mandatory-fastag-increase-toll-revenue-collection-at-a-greater-rate-in-2021-22/  )

#  0n 25 Feb 2021……. 104 ( in one day )

#  Expected collection for current year ….. 34,000

#  Expected to reach in 3 to 4 years………..134,000 ( Rs  1.34 Lakh*Crore  per

                                                                       year )

It must be noted that, all of this TAX COLLECTION is fully AUTOMATIC, without

any Human Intervention !

Also note that, our total Vehicle population is about 340 million in 2021

Assume that, out of this, 80 % are 2-Wheelers (which may not ply on highways ),

leaving 20 % of 4 Wheelers ( cars – buses – trucks etc ), numbering approx.

70  million , which use highways and pay toll tax

Of these 70 million, may be no more than 7 million ( 10 % ) use Highways on any

given day

It is these 7 million which are expected to contribute Rs 1.34 Lakh*crore  per

year by way of Toll Tax

Now imagine that we find a method to make all 70 million ( 4 wheelers ) to pay a

TRANS-TAX ,

          Ø    Whether plying on Highways or on City Roads

          Ø    Every day

          Ø     Automatically ( using same method of Pre-paid RFID ) / without human

                 intervention

 

In such an event, I suppose we could , quite possibly collect, 

Rs 25 Lakh*Crore per year !

 

Dear Minsters,

One more time with love, I urge you to get Transport Experts / IT Experts , to

examine the feasibility of :

  Transport : an Integrated Logistic Plan ? ……….[ 20 Nov 2018 ]

 

 

With Regards,

Hemen Parekh

www.hemenparekh.ai  /  03 May  2023

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Added after publishing :

 

 Buoyed by record daily toll collection through FASTag, NHAI set to deploy GNSS s ..

Extract :

The daily toll collection through FASTag system achieved a historic milestone, reaching an all

 time high collecion of Rs 193.5 crore

Buoyed by the success story of FASTag system, NHAI is actively working toward finalizing the

necessary requirements for implementation of Global Navigation Satellite System ( GNSS )

based tolling system for allowing free flow tolling system in India, the Ministry of Road

Transport and Highways, said on Tuesday

The Ministry further said , in addition to the effectiveness in toll collection, FASTag has also

facilitated , seamless and secure CONTACTLESS PAYMENT for PARKING FEES at over 140

parking lots in 50 + cities across India

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MY  TAKE ( as far as " Parking Fees " is concerne ) :

Parking Mess ? It will get worse !  ............ 01 Jan 2018

Un-Implementable Laws : Unstoppable Corruption... 20 Jan 2017  

Extract  :

Si Nitin Gadkariji has already introduced automated toll gates where car owners need not stop to pay

   

    the toll charges . Vehicles which have installed pre-paid RFID sensors can just whiz pass ! Toll

    amount gets deducted / transferred , automatically

There is no technological difficulty in “ reversing “ this application for stationary vehicles !

·         Then there are drones ! 

An army of drones can keep tab ( 24*7 ) of all stationary vehicles , find those which are

stationary at the same GPS location for more than 10 minutes and deduct the appropriate “

parking charges “ from those pre-paid RFID sensors , installed in all vehicles . No rocket science

this ! Vehicle batteries will supply power to RFID chips

·         And if you do not want to track / monitor / control , an army of DRONES , then just ask ISRO to

        launch a Geo-Synchronous Satellite to do the same job for ALL the vehicles in ALL the cities of

        India !