So far, Fastag has been the widely used electronic method of payment for all four-wheeled vehicles that travel through toll plazas regularly. With this technology, you don't have to stop at the toll booth, and you can breeze through it without any hassle.

FASTag has become mandatory across India for all four-wheeled vehicles, especially those that run on highways with toll plazas regularly. Fastag can be described as a prepaid recharge card that comes affixed as a magnetic strip-enabled sticker on the vehicle's windshield.

After the implementation of Radio-Frequency IDentification (RFID) based toll collection system through FASTag across India, the central government is now mulling the idea of bringing another significant change in the country's highway toll collection process. The central government has been thinking about replacing the conventional toll plazas with a camera-aided toll collection system that can read number plates on the vehicles.

These cameras will be known as Automatic Number Plate Reader, that is ANPR cameras. The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways which is MoRTH claims the main objective of setting up these cameras is to reduce the waiting time for vehicles at the toll plazas. Currently, around 97 per cent of toll collection across India is happening through FASTag, and people at the toll plazas still feel the congestion. Setting up the ANPR cameras would possibly reduce the congestion at the toll plazas, as MoRTH has hinted.

Before the central government implements the new toll collection system, here is all you need to know about it.

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