Govt likely to make GPS mandatory for cars, will track cars on every route they take

Now that FASTags are mandatory for cars, the government is planning to do away with toll booths. Instead, the toll will be collected on the basis of GPS tracking, which in other words means the government will track all cars in real-time across India.

You can call in real-time surveillance of all cars on Indian roads or you can say that it is just a way to make toll collection easier. But if the government goes ahead with its plans to remove physical toll booths and introduce a GPS-based toll collection system, it will allow government officials to monitor all cars in India in real-time. The trigger for the move is likely to be removal of physical toll booths, which the government seems to be pitching as the next step after making FASTags mandatory from February 15, 2021.