No More FASTag Deadline Extension, Mandatory for Vehicles from February 15: Nitin Gadakri

08-02-2021

The Central government has been increasing the last date of FASTag implementation since a long time. However, in a recent meeting, the Union Road And Transport minister of India, Nitin Gadkari clearly mentioned that there will be no more extension for the implementation. According to a report published in Cartoq,the last date of getting a FAStag for your vehicle will be February 15. He, while addressing questions of the media, said that by December 2020,73.36% people registered with FASTag,as opposed to 44.31% in 2019. It has also been revealed by the minister that the monthly toll collected through FASTag stands at Rs 2,088.26 crore.
FASTag uses Radio Frequency Identification (RFIDO) for transactions at the toll booths. The tag is pasted on the front windscreen of the car and whenever a vehicle crosses any tollbooth, the gates open automatically after the RFID scans the information on the FasTag. The main benefit and reason for the usage of FAStags are that it will reduce that traffic at toll gates. In order to make sure that more and more people choose FAStag over other modes, toll booths have stopped taking payment in cash. Only one lane on each side has been marked for cash payments. Further, to minimise cases of fraud, the National Highways Authority of India has made a rule that the cars entering FAStag lane without the tag will be charged twice the amount of toll.