{"id":658786,"date":"2026-02-21T12:21:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T06:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=658786"},"modified":"2026-02-21T12:21:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T06:51:49","slug":"nhai-might-discontinue-cash-transactions-at-all-toll-plazas-from-april-1-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/nhai-might-discontinue-cash-transactions-at-all-toll-plazas-from-april-1-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"NHAI might discontinue cash transactions at all toll plazas from April 1, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Highway Authority of India on Friday said that it is considering discontinuing cash transactions from April 1, 2026, at toll plazas across India.<\/p>\n<p>Already, 98% of the toll fee is collected through FASTag, and the remaining is collected through UPI-based digital payments and cash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Highway Authority of India on Friday said that it is considering discontinuing cash transactions from April 1, 2026, at toll plazas across India. Already, 98% of the toll fee is collected through FASTag, and the remaining is collected through UPI-based digital payments and cash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-roads-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658786","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}