TIRUPATI: The Alipiri toll plaza, built and managed by Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams’ (TTD), is becoming the first non-NHAI toll plaza that will have the cashless, electronic FASTag system.
The temple body has initiated the trial run for the FASTag project. This is likely to give a major fillip to digital payments and bring in transparency. TTD officials are closely monitoring the implementation of this system at the state-of-the-art toll plaza in Alipiri, to rectify snags, if any. FASTag is a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology-based system to collect payments at toll gates through the prepaid mode. The Union Government has made it mandatory for all four-wheelers to have FASTag. The toll plazas on national highways, thus, have cashless transactions.
