Sunday, December 15, 2019

25% FASTag lanes to accept all forms of payment for a month

Hybrid lanes to ease traffic and avoid hardships to public: govt.

15/12/2019, PRESS TRUST OF INDIA


No waiting: The government had earlier extended the date to December 15 for making FASTag mandatory. S. SIVA SARAVANAN

To avert inconvenience to citizens, the government said on Saturday that up to 25% of FASTag lanes at the National Highway toll plazas would be treated as hybrid lanes for a month.

The hybrid lane will accept FASTag and other modes of payment. The government had earlier announced rollout of mandatory FASTag for electronic toll collection from December 1, which was later extended to December 15, 2019.

“Considering the request of the NHAI and further that citizens are not put to inconvenience... it is decided that depending on the traffic pile-up at high traffic volume fee plazas, not more than 25% of the FASTag lanes may be temporarily converted to hybrid lanes,” the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways said.

This should be considered on a case-to-case basis, the Ministry added.

“A daily evaluation of such cases should be made to take necessary corrective action,” it said. It should be ensured that at least 75% lanes of every fee plaza remain operational as FASTag lanes, it added.

Temporary measure

The Ministry clarified that it is a temporary measure to be adopted for 30 days only to facilitate smooth flow of traffic.

The National Electronic Toll Collection programme, the flagship initiative of the Ministry, has been implemented on a pan-India basis in order to remove bottlenecks and ensure seamless movement of traffic and collection of user fee, using passive radio frequency identification (RFID) technology.

A customer may dial the helpline number ‘1033’ for any assistance related to FASTags, the Ministry had said, and added that they could also reach out to banks to obtain FASTags.

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