New Delhi (NVI): More than 70 lakh FASTags have been issued till date, with the highest number of 1,35,583 tags having been provided on November 26, an official statement said.
Meanwhile, on Monday, the issuance was of 1.03 lakh tags.
The average daily issuance has increased by 330 per cent from 8,000 in July to 35,000 tags sold in November 2019. After announcement of waiver of tag cost, there has been a growth in FASTag issuance of over 130 per cent, the statement said.
FASTag is accepted on more than 560 Toll Plazas and many more are getting added daily.
National Electronic Toll Collection (FASTag) programme, the flagship initiative of the Road Transport and Highways Ministry and NHAI has been implemented on pan India basis in order to remove bottlenecks and ensure seamless movement of traffic and collection of user fee as per the notified rates, using passive Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology.
To encourage digital payments and bring in enhanced transparency, it has been mandated to declare all lanes of fee plazas on National Highways as “FASTag lanes” by December 1, while provisioning one lane (in each direction) which would be kept as hybrid lane to accept FASTag and other modes of payment.
With the above mandate, average daily transactions processed through FASTag have grown from 8.8 lakh in July this year to 11.2 lakh transactions in November 2019, while the average daily collection has grown from Rs 11.2 crore to Rs 19.5 crore for the given period.
Certain commuters face difficulty at toll plaza due to low balance in FASTAg. To mitigate such difficulty, commuters are advised to maintain sufficient balance in the account or wallet linked to FASTag.
All the available mode of recharge like debit card, credit card, net-banking and UPI have been enabled for loading money to the FASTag account.
