India Business News: Sources said the total toll collection via FASTags was around Rs 85 crore before the NHAI designated all toll lanes as FASTag lanes. Officials said th
According to official data, currently there are about 670 toll plazas on the entire NH network. “Transaction through FASTag is happening at all NH toll plazas. The share of toll payment transactions done through the FASTag has touched almost 85%,” said an NHAI official.
So far as the tolled roads under the state government are concerned all 19 toll plazas under the Hyderabad Growth Corridor Ltd, 18 on the roads under Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation, 17 plazas each under MP Road Development Corporation and UP Expressways Industrial Development Authority allow paying user fee through FASTag.
Similarly, 13 stretches in Gujarat, 15 under the Karnataka Road Development Corporation and 10 under the TN Road Development Company also allows toll charge payment through FASTag.
Data sourced from technology startup Bulleye Technologies, which tracks traffic flow at over over 400 toll plazas across the country, showed that at 7 pm on Thursday, the waiting time at Aliyapur toll plaza in Kanpur Nagar was 27 minutes.
While the situation was not as bad across several other toll plazas, it still added up to 9-10 minutes, something that FASTags that are now mandatory were supposed to eliminate. For traffic heading towards Gurgaon from Jaipur, the waiting time at the Kheri Dahula toll plaza was over nine minutes.
Similarly, at Vadodara toll plaza in Gujarat, the waiting time was over 10 minutes, while it was just under nine minutes at the Gegal toll plaza in Ajmer.
According to official data, currently there are about 670 toll plazas on the entire NH network. “Transaction through FASTag is happening at all NH toll plazas. The share of toll payment transactions done through the FASTag has touched almost 85%,” said an NHAI official.
So far as the tolled roads under the state government are concerned all 19 toll plazas under the Hyderabad Growth Corridor Ltd, 18 on the roads under Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation, 17 plazas each under MP Road Development Corporation and UP Expressways Industrial Development Authority allow paying user fee through FASTag.
Similarly, 13 stretches in Gujarat, 15 under the Karnataka Road Development Corporation and 10 under the TN Road Development Company also allows toll charge payment through FASTag.
NHAI transitions to 100% cashless toll via compulsory FASTags
The rollout of 100 per cent cashless tolling has been positively received by highway users with a record sale of over 2.5 lakh tags in the last two days, NHAI said in a statement
PTI | February 19, 2021 | Updated 10:46 IST
The radio-frequency identification (RFID)-based FASTag is affixed on the windscreen of the vehicle
The NHAI on Thursday said it has transitioned to 100 per cent cashless tolling at national highways with the government making FASTags mandatory. Following the guidelines for mandatory payment of user fee through FASTag at the toll plazas from the midnight of 15/16 February 2021, NHAI has successfully transitioned to 100 per cent cashless tolling at National Highways fee plazas across the country, NHAI said in a statement.