Toll plazas to go cashless from January 1
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Vehicles with out tag which enter the FASTag lane, could have to pay double cost, says NHAI official
Come January 1, the sight of seeing lengthy traces of automobiles, ready for cost of money at toll plazas on the National Highways will quickly be a factor of the previous.
The lone money cost lanes, that are being continued on the toll plazas, regardless of the introduction of FASTag way back, will likely be withdrawn after December 31, 2020.
“About 20% of motorists are yet to take FASTag. This is because the owners of local private vehicles assume they do not need to take FASTag as they do not need to go out of the city. But, now they have to invariably take the tag as there will be no longer be ‘cash lanes’ at the toll plazas,” NHAI (Visakhapatnam) Project Director P. Siva Sankar advised The Puucho on Friday.
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“The toll plaza at Aganampudi in the city has the maximum movement of vehicles at about 60,000, followed by about 40,000 each at Nathavalasa and Madapam toll gates. FASTag has been enabled at all the eight toll plazas Anakapalle, Aganampudi, Nathavalasa, Chilakapalem, Madapam, Lakshmipuram (Andhra-Odisha border), apart from the primary and secondary toll plazas on the Port Connectivity Road which falls under the jurisdiction of the NHAI, Visakhapatnam,” Mr. Siva Sankar says.
The pay as you go gadget (FASTag), which employs Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) expertise, could be affixed to the windscreen of the automobile from inside. It permits the client to make the cost immediately from the FASTag account, whereas the automobile is in movement. While passing a toll gate on nationwide freeway, the client would obtain a textual content message on cell phones specifying the quantity deducted.
The registration of the FASTag chip has to be achieved on the POS at any toll plaza. After getting the tag, motorists can obtain ‘My Fastag app’ on their cellphones and hyperlink their financial institution accounts with the automobile registration numbers to get alerts on the toll quantities deducted.
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