{"id":423741,"date":"2021-07-02T11:00:09","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T05:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=423741"},"modified":"2021-07-02T12:00:10","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T06:30:10","slug":"toll-collection-via-fastags-on-national-highways-increased-21-m-o-m-in-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/toll-collection-via-fastags-on-national-highways-increased-21-m-o-m-in-june\/","title":{"rendered":"Toll collection via FASTags on national highways increased 21% m-o-m in June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toll collection through FASTags on national highways increased by 21% month-on-month (m-o-m) in June to Rs 2,576 crore as traffic movement eased following the partial lifting of lockdown and restrictions imposed by several states to contain the spread of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>In May, toll collection declined 23.47% to Rs 2,125 crore over the previous month. In April Rs 2,777 crore toll was collected and Rs 3,086 crore in March. <\/p>\n<p>Around 96% of the toll is currently collected through the electronic route using FASTag.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith a fall in the number of Covid cases from the third week of May 2021, states are expected to relax the lockdown restrictions in a gradual manner. We expect the toll collections to ramp up from June onward,\u201d Icra\u2019s vice president Rajeshwar Burla had earlier said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toll collection through FASTags on national highways increased by 21% month-on-month (m-o-m) in June to Rs 2,576 crore as traffic movement eased following the partial lifting of lockdown and restrictions imposed by several states to contain the spread of the coronavirus. In May, toll collection declined 23.47% to Rs 2,125 crore over the previous month. In April Rs 2,777 crore toll was collected and Rs 3,086 crore in March. Around 96% of the toll is currently collected through the electronic route using FASTag. \u201cWith a fall in the number of Covid cases from the third week of May 2021, states [&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":[130,197,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423741","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=423741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}