{"id":648839,"date":"2025-10-06T08:49:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T03:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=648839"},"modified":"2025-10-06T09:30:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T04:00:44","slug":"fastag-penalty-charges-govt-says-pay-1-25x-if-traveling-without-valid-fastag-through-upi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/fastag-penalty-charges-govt-says-pay-1-25x-if-traveling-without-valid-fastag-through-upi\/","title":{"rendered":"FASTag penalty charges: Govt says pay 1.25x if traveling without valid FASTag through UPI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From November 15, vehicles without a FASTag, or with an invalid or non-functional tag, will be allowed to pay 1.25 times the regular toll via UPI. This comes as a relief compared to the current rule, under which drivers without a valid FASTag must pay double the toll in cash. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In a significant step to incentivize digital payments and eliminate cash transactions at the user fee plazas on National Highways for Non-FASTag users, the Government of India has amended National Highways Fee (Determination of Rates and Collection) Rules, 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From November 15, vehicles without a FASTag, or with an invalid or non-functional tag, will be allowed to pay 1.25 times the regular toll via UPI. This comes as a relief compared to the current rule, under which drivers without a valid FASTag must pay double the toll in cash. &#8220;In a significant step to incentivize digital payments and eliminate cash transactions at the user fee plazas on National Highways for Non-FASTag users, the Government of India has amended National Highways Fee (Determination of Rates and Collection) Rules, 2008.<\/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":[130,193,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648839","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=648839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}