Overview
- The Mundka‑Bakkarwala plaza, inaugurated Monday by road minister Nitin Gadkari, became Delhi‑NCR’s first and India’s second Multi‑Lane Free Flow site after Gujarat’s Choryasi installation on May 1.
- MLFF uses plate‑reading cameras and FASTag radio tags to identify a moving vehicle and deduct the fee automatically, so drivers no longer slow or stop at booths.
- Drivers with low balance, invalid or inactive FASTags receive an e‑notice and have 72 hours to pay digitally before penalties apply, and banks have been told to fix mismatched number‑plate and FASTag records.
- Early results from the first site show about half of e‑notice recipients cleared dues with roughly Rs 30 lakh recovered, stoppages dropped to zero, and toll collections rose about 10%, according to NHAI.
- NHAI plans 17 plazas across nine states by September 2026 and another 108‑plus by March 2027, with officials citing lower operating costs and projected cuts in fuel use and carbon emissions as key gains.