“Post demonetisation, the government had relaunched the National (ETC) programme and given us till August to ensure that every toll lane at the over 400 toll plazas on national highways are radio frequency identification device (RFID)-based ETC-enabled. Since the progress on that was slow, we have now got a final deadline of October," a senior NHAI official, one of the people cited earlier, said on condition of anonymity.