Utilizing AI to confirm toll collections on NH: Nitin Gadkari
The Nationwide Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is contemplating the set up of audit cameras at high-value toll plazas to independently monitor the quantity and classification of passing autos utilizing synthetic intelligence (AI), Union minister for highway transport and highways Nitin Gadkari advised the Lok Sabha on Thursday.
He additionally pointed to an incident at Atraila Shiv Gulam price plaza in Uttar Pradesh’s Mirzapur, the place full money was collected, a part of which was processed by means of an unauthorised handheld machine and never by means of the toll administration system software program of the price plaza.
“Studying from this incident, NHAI goals to strengthen the money assortment course of from invalid/non FASTag autos and extra surveillance is being contemplated to strictly monitor the rely of car passing by means of the price plaza to tally it with the receipts on the toll plaza,” he stated.
Gadkari was responding to a query by DMK MP Dayanidhi Maran on steps taken by the federal government to deal with frauds associated to toll assortment on nationwide highways.
Underneath the pilot programme of constructing barrier-less toll assortment methods, the minister added that NHAI has invited bids for the implementation of a FASTag and Computerized Quantity Plate Recognition (ANPR)-based toll assortment at 5 toll plazas at Gharaunda, Choryasi, Nemili, UER (city extension highway)–II and Dwarka Expressway.
“This technique allows consumer price assortment solely by means of FASTag. E-notices are proposed for Invalid/NonFASTag autos, thus eliminating the money assortment from the toll assortment course of.”
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In his reply, Gadkari additionally stated that greater than 98% of consumer price assortment happens by means of FASTag below Nationwide Digital Toll Assortment (NETC) programme with Nationwide Fee Company of India (NPCI) as central clearing home.
“The transaction includes a clear course of whereby the deducted consumer price (Toll) is knowledgeable to the freeway customers and recorded in a central repository. The Digital Toll Assortment (ETC) system is designed such that no FASTag transaction can happen with out the participation of all three stakeholders– acquirer financial institution at consumer price plaza, NPCI and issuer Financial institution.”
Gadkari stated for money transactions too, the consumer price gathering businesses are obligated to course of collections by means of the toll administration system, so {that a} centralised document is maintained. He added monitoring of money assortment and exempted autos is a part of half-yearly inner audits of NHAI challenge implementation models (PIUs) primarily based on which corrective measures are taken to enhance the ETC penetration additional.
“Along with above, the Authorities has appointed System Integrators to observe the consumer price plaza operations 24X7 and to report back to the Central Management Room of any suspicious exercise occurring on the consumer price plaza.”
Nonetheless, he added that the federal government is investigating some probably fraudulent operations at consumer price plazas primarily based on complaints and thus far, seven businesses have been debarred or monetarily penalised for a breach of contractual obligations together with breach of operational transparency.
