{"id":305771,"date":"2019-12-16T11:49:56","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T06:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=305771"},"modified":"2019-12-16T12:03:17","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T06:33:17","slug":"as-deadline-kicks-in-users-paying-cash-at-dedicated-fastag-toll-booths-penalised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/as-deadline-kicks-in-users-paying-cash-at-dedicated-fastag-toll-booths-penalised\/","title":{"rendered":"As deadline kicks in, users paying cash at dedicated FASTag toll booths penalised"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vehicle users on national highways who wish to pay toll charges in cash, but get into the non-cash lane, have started paying double the toll amount from Sunday. This was confirmed to BusinessLine by several National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) officials, who declined to be quoted.<\/p>\n<p>There were tiffs and arguments as people tried to resist paying the double charge, but many users ended up buying FASTags after getting into such lanes. There were instances of people paying double the amount in non-cash lanes, said the officials.<\/p>\n<p>From December 15, all national highway lanes were to be enabled to accept electronic payments through FASTags. However, one lane would accept both e-payments and cash. And, if users with cash got into dedicated electronic lanes, they would have to pay double the toll fee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vehicle users on national highways who wish to pay toll charges in cash, but get into the non-cash lane, have started paying double the toll amount from Sunday. This was confirmed to BusinessLine by several National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) officials, who declined to be quoted. There were tiffs and arguments as people tried to resist paying the double charge, but many users ended up buying FASTags after getting into such lanes. There were instances of people paying double the amount in non-cash lanes, said the officials. From December 15, all national highway lanes were to be enabled to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}