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The government has now made FASTag mandatory for vehicles as not having it will attract fines.
DNA Web Team
Feb 16, 2021, 11:56 AM IST
The Union Ministry of Road Transportation and Highways has made the Radio Frequency Identification tag, which facilitates electronic payment of fees at toll plazas, mandatory from Monday midnight, and vehicles without FASTag will have to pay double charges at the toll plaza. So, if you are passing through a National Highway, you will need a FASTag for your vehicle.
A FASTag is a sticker that is attached to the windshield of your car and has an imprinted Radio-frequency Identification (RFID) barcode which is linked with the registration details of your vehicle. As you drive through any toll plaza on any national highway in India, FASTag readers will read the code and will deduct the amount required to pass the barrier.
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FASTag payment has already been enabled at more than 720 toll plazas on national highways across India.
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FASTag is becoming mandatory starting today. Everyone who has a road trip on the cards will need a FASTag for their car in order to cross toll plaza s across national highways. The deadline today is an extended deadline from the previous January 1 deadline put in place by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways. FASTag s are meant to enable contactless toll payments across national highways in the country and can be issued via multiple banks including HDFC Bank, Axis Bank, ICICI Bank, Kotak Bank, Paytm Payments Bank and IDFC First Bank, to name a few. FASTag payments option has already been enabled at more than 720 toll plazas on national highways across India.
FASTag mandatory from midnight on 15 February; vehicles sans stickers to pay double toll fee The ministry has clarified that this has been done to further promote fee payment through digital mode, reduce waiting time and fuel consumption, and provide for a seamless passage through the fee plazas FASTag sanctioned by the National Highway Authority of India.
New Delhi: The government on Sunday said it has made FASTags mandatory from 15 February midnight and any vehicle not fitted with it will be charged double the toll at electronic toll plazas across the country.
The Ministry of Road Transport & Highways in a statement said it has decided that all lanes in the fee plazas on National Highways shall be declared as FASTag lane of the fee plaza from midnight of 15th/16th February 2021.