100% electronic collection at Toll Plazas through FASTag from Jan 1

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Daily Excelsior
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Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 22: Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, Government of India has decided to strictly implement 100 per cent electronic collection at Toll Plazas through FASTag from January 1, 2021.
In order to promote the payment through digital mode and to provide a seamless passage to the fee plazas, it has been decided that all the lanes shall be declared as ‘FASTag lane of fee plaza’ and user of the vehicle not fitted with FASTag entering into FASTag lane of the fee plazas shall pay a fee equivalent to two times of the fee applicable to that category of the vehicle.
The trials of 100 per cent electronic collection will be conducted at Thandi Khui Toll Plaza in Samba, Bann Toll Plaza in Jammu District and Lakhanpur Toll Plaza in Kathua District. Increase in use of FASTag will lead to non-stop movement across the Toll Plazas in near future. NHAI is making every possible effort for hassle-free movement of VVIP, Defence Personnel, Ambulance and other exempted vehicles and avoiding the traffic Jams.
Ajay Kumar Rajak, Project Director, NHAI Jammu further informed that the recharge or topup once made in the account linked to the FASTags can be used whenever the vehicle crosses any of the Toll Plazas in the country. Non FASTag vehicles will have longer waiting time and will not be allowed to cross the Toll Plaza. They will have to pay double the Toll on entering the Toll Plaza and has to install the FASTag. The vehicle fitted with FASTag will move swiftly through the Toll Plaza at the existing rates and even discounts like return journey monthly pass, local district discount to commercial vehicle are only available on using FASTags.
Rajak said that the rule will be strictly implemented in the UT and no vehicle will be allowed to cross the Toll Plaza without FASTag and also double Toll shall be imposed without FASTag from January 1, 2021 and has requested all the stake holders to install/activate the FASTags on their vehicles before January 1, 2021 for seamless movement across the toll plazas on the National Highways in India.

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