QUESTION 6
GS3
10 marks
What is the technology being employed for electronic toll collection on highways? What are its advantages and limitations? What are the proposed changes that will make this process seamless? Would this transition carry any potential hazards?
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7 min
150 words
What the examiner wants
Answer all four parts: current toll technology, its pros and cons, proposed changes for seamless tolling, and the risks of that transition.
ExplainMake clear how and why it happens: causes, process, and an example for each point.
Demand-wise check
- 1Technology: FASTag using passive RFID≈30 words
- 2Advantages: less waiting, fuel saving, transparency; limitations: tag misuse, blacklisting, plaza congestion still, leakage≈30 words
- 3Proposed: GNSS-based tolling (satellite, distance-based), ANPR cameras, barrier-free free-flow lanes≈30 words
- 4Hazards: privacy and surveillance, GPS errors, cyber attacks, dispute resolution≈30 words
Open in about 20 words and close in about 20.
Answer plan
FASTagPros and consGNSS/ANPRHazardsConclusion
Where marks usually go
- Not answering the 'hazards' part
- Not naming RFID
Draw this
- Flow: vehicle → GNSS OBU → distance → automatic deduction
Value addition
- RuleMoRTH amended the National Highways Fee Rules in 2024 to allow GNSS-based toll collection.Ministry of Road Transport and Highways
- FactFASTag became mandatory for all vehicles from 15 February 2021.NHAI
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Reviewed public-source references related to this PYQ. Same-syllabus references are labelled separately.
- Shakti Dubey · AIR 1 · Page 23 ↗Same syllabus reference
- Mayank Purohit · AIR 33 · Page 3 ↗Same syllabus reference
- Aniket Ranjan · AIR 48 · Page 26 ↗Same syllabus reference
- Mayank Purohit · AIR 33 · Page 13 ↗Same syllabus reference
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