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From right now, automobiles sans FASTags to be charged double toll charge at digital plazas

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Image Source : PTI FASTag obligatory from tonight
Beginning February 15 midnight, the federal government has mandated FASTags and automobiles discovered with out FASTags will now be charged double the toll at digital toll plazas throughout the nation. In a press release, the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways stated it has determined that every one lanes within the charge plazas on National Highways shall be declared as ‘FASTag lane of the charge plaza’ from midnight of fifteenth/sixteenth February 2021.
“Therefore, as per NH Fee Rules 2008, any vehicle not fitted with FASTag or vehicle without valid, functional FASTag entering into the FASTag lane of the fee plaza shall pay a fee equivalent to two times of the fee applicable to that category,” the assertion stated.

The ministry has clarified that this has been carried out to additional promote charge fee by means of digital mode, scale back ready time and gas consumption, and supply for a seamless passage by means of the charge plazas.
The ministry had mandated the fitment of FASTag in M&N classes of motor automobiles with impact from January 1, 2021.
Category ‘M’ stands for a motorized vehicle with no less than 4 wheels used for carrying passengers. And Category ‘N’ stands for a motorized vehicle with no less than 4 wheels used for carrying items, which can additionally carry individuals along with items. 

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