Bombay high court. (File photo)
MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Wednesday sought the Centre and National Highway Authority of India’s response to a public interest litigation challenging the charging of double toll for non- use of FASTag, the electronic toll collection system, at toll plazas.
The direction by a bench of chief justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Girish Kulkarni came on a PIL by Pune resident Arjun Khanapure to continue cash facility for ordinary people at toll plazas in Maharashtra. The petition said the respondents were “arbitrarily” collecting double the toll fee as fine for not using FASTag. His advocate Uday Warunjikar argued although there is no provision in the law, still NHAI is illegally fining people.
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FASTag, the automatic toll plaza payment system, is being made mandatory for all vehicles in the country from today midnight, the Central Government said in a statement on Sunday. Union Road Transport and Highways Ministry 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, the government s Press Information Bureau said in a statement.
FASTag news: With all the lanes being made FASTag lanes, it becomes mandatory for you to have a FASTag on your vehicle if you do not want to shell out double the applicable fee at the toll plazas for the category of vehicle you are driving.
FASTag made Mandatory from Today Midnight:- The Indian government made it mandatory for all the four-wheelers in the country for FASTag. The rule will be implemented from the midnight of today. All the fee plazas on the national highways of India are declared as FASTag lanes as per the statement from the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways. Any four-wheeler with out FASTag is not valid and will be charged double the toll starting from today midnight as per the NH Fee Rules 2008. FASTag was introduced in 2016 but some of them have been objected as it took time for the vehicles to take FASTag. Though January 1st was the deadline, it was pushed to today.
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FASTags must from today midnight: All lanes on the fee plazas on national highways shall be classified as FASTag lane of the fee plaza from today midnight
BusinessToday.In | February 15, 2021 | Updated 13:12 IST
FASTag is valid for five years from the date on which it was issued
The Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has made it compulsory for all vehicle owners to use FASTags, which facilitate electronic payment of fees at toll plazas, beginning from February 15 midnight. As per the guidelines issued by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, all lanes on the fee plazas on national highways shall be classified as FASTag lane of the fee plaza from today midnight.