Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nThe circular, which is yet to be made public, further said\nto monitor movement of oversized vehicles, one lane in the toll plaza will be\nkept as \u2018hybrid lane\u2019 accepting FASTag and other modes of payment. However,\nsuch a lane will also be converted into a FASTag lane in a time-bound manner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
FASTag is attached to the windscreen and uses radio\nfrequency identification (RFID) technology to enable direct toll payments while\nthe vehicle is moving. The toll fare is deducted from the bank account linked\nto FASTag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Currently, there is a provision of making a vehicle owner\npay twice the toll fee amount under the National Highways Fee (Determination of\nRates and Collection) Rules, 2008. The ministry has now said imposition of\nhigher toll fee must be \u2018strictly implemented\u2019 if a non-FASTag vehicle enters\nthe FASTag lane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cLogistics and other implementation problems, which may lead\nto law and order problems at fee plazas, may please be identified and\nresolved,” the circular addressing the National Highways Authority of India\n(NHAI) said, adding availability of adequate number of FASTags should be\nfacilitated to encourage cashless payments at the toll plaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
About FASTags<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
FASTags issued by 22 certified banks through various channels such as Point-of-Sale at NH toll plazas, selected bank branches. These are also available on the e-commerce platform. It is a \u2018bank-neutral\u2019 FASTag. No bank is pre-assigned to the FASTags at the time of purchase by a customer from a Point-of-Sale or Online and offers the flexibility to the customer to link the FASTag with their existing bank account by using My FASTags Mobile app, currently available on Google Play Store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
All lanes in the fee plazas shall be declared as FASTag lane of fee plaza by December 1, 2019, according to a road ministry circular reviewed by Mint. FASTag is an electronic toll connection device installed in the vehicle to enable drivers to drive through toll plazas without having to stop. The move is part […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":5241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[575],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-5240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles","tag-fastags"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5242,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5240\/revisions\/5242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5240"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=5240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}