Despite the pandemic and the lockdown, issuance of the government’s highways electronic toll-collection tag – FASTags – has reached the 2-crore mark and around Rs 75 crore in tolls is being collected automatically every day, according to the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI).
Due to the surge in use of FASTags, electronic toll collection has reached almost 80 per cent of total daily collection of Rs 92 crore. This time last year, daily collection was around Rs 70 crore per day.
FASTags will be mandatory for all vehicles from January as per a recent notification of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways.
