Good News For Greater Noida And Jewar Airport Commuters: No More Stopping To Pay Toll | Noida News
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NPR cameras will scan plates and auto-deduct toll via FASTag on the Noida Airport link expressway — no booths, no barriers, no queues. Here’s how the tech works.
The link expressway connects Noida Airport to the Yamuna river in Haryana’s Mohna region. (Representational Image)
There’s good news for those travelling to Greater Noida and Jewar Airport. Vehicles on the link expressway connecting Noida International Airport to the Delhi–Mumbai Expressway will no longer need to stop to pay toll — though the toll itself will still be charged, just automatically.
Before anyone assumes this means a free ride, that isn’t the case. The toll will still be deducted — the only change is that drivers won’t need to stop to pay it. Here’s how the new system will work.
No Stopping, No Rolling Down Windows — So How Does It Work?
The toll plaza being built at Karauli Bangar in Jewar won’t have the conventional toll booths and barriers seen at most highway tolls. Instead, ANPR (Automatic Number Plate Recognition) cameras mounted on the road will scan the number plates of moving vehicles.
The vehicle will then be identified through its linked FASTag details, and the applicable toll amount will be deducted automatically — no rolling down windows, no waiting for barriers to lift. The vehicle simply keeps moving while the toll is charged in the background.
Who Benefits Most From This?
The biggest beneficiaries will be commuters using this stretch to travel to and from the airport, especially during festivals and long holidays, when toll plazas typically see long queues of vehicles.
This free-flow system is expected to help ease congestion during such peak periods. The link expressway connects Noida Airport to the Yamuna river in Haryana’s Mohna region, and according to the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), it is targeted to be linked with the Eastern Peripheral Expressway by December.
Once that happens, the stretch from Noida Airport to Mohna is planned to be opened for public use.
Is This Kind of Tolling Already In Use Elsewhere?
Yes — and Uttar Pradesh already has a head start on this front. The Delhi–Meerut Expressway, which connects Delhi to Meerut in western UP, became the country’s first toll-plaza-free highway, with NHAI deploying an ANPR-cum-FASTag-based Multi-Lane Free Flow (MLFF) system there that automatically deducts toll from high-definition camera reads of number plates, without any physical booths.
Beyond UP, NHAI has been rolling out similar barrier-less systems at select plazas nationally: the Chorayasi Toll Plaza on the Surat–Bharuch stretch of NH-48 in Gujarat became India’s first operational MLFF corridor, followed by the Shahjahanpur, Daulatpura and Manoharpura toll plazas on the Delhi–Jaipur section of NH-48 in Rajasthan, and the Mundka Bakkarwala plaza on the Urban Extension Road-II in Delhi.
According to the road transport ministry, the barrier-free system has already been awarded for implementation at 17 toll plazas across the country, of which five are operational, with bids invited for 104 more.
Are More Highways Set to Get This System?
Yes. Similar multi-lane free-flow toll systems are in the pipeline for several other national highways across the country. NHAI is planning to roll out this system at around 25 national highway fee plazas.
The message is clear — the journey to Jewar Airport isn’t just getting faster with a high-speed expressway; it’s also being made smoother by doing away with the need to stop in a toll line.
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Ask News18The toll plaza at Karauli Bangar in Jewar will not have conventional booths or barriers. Instead, Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras will scan the number plates of moving vehicles. The vehicle is then identified through its linked FASTag details, and the toll amount is automatically deducted without the vehicle needing to stop or wait for barriers to lift.
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