FASTags drive toll collections to 1-day record of ₹102 crore

FASTags drive toll collections to 1-day record of ₹102 crore

Dipak.Dash@timesgroup.com

New Delhi:21.02.2021 

The toll fee collections through FASTag across the National Highway network have jumped by 23% in the past four days and the amount touched ₹102 crore on Friday, the highest ever toll collection in NHAI’s history.

Sources said the total toll collection through FASTag was around ₹85 crore before NHAI designated all toll lanes as FASTag lanes. Officials said while cash transactions have fallen below 10% during this week, another reason for good revenue is plugging of leakages.

“It takes a couple of days to collate all details of cash transactions. We are hopeful of record collection of user fee as now there is no avenue for anyone to under report the actual toll collection,” said an official. Sources said the government has also stepped up monitoring of toll plazas to see that commuters are not caught in queue even after having FASTags.

The notification issued by the road transport ministry on May 7, 2018 specifies, “If a vehicle user with a valid, functional FASTag or any such device with sufficient balance in the linked account crossing a fee plaza installed with electronic toll collection infrastructure, is not able to pay user fee through FASTag or any such device owing to malfunctioning of electronic toll collection infrastructure, the vehicle user shall be permitted to pass the fee plaza without payment of any user fee. An appropriate zero transaction receipt shall be issued mandatorily for all such transactions.”

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