The Parliament became once urged on Monday
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Nitin Gadkari | FASTag | e tolling
The reasonable day-to-day toll sequence through FASTag has reached Rs 100 crore day-to-day, Parliament became once urged on Monday.
The executive has made FASTags wanted from February 15 heart of the night and any automobile not fitted with it will seemingly be charged double the toll at digital toll plazas across the country.
“As on 16th March 2021, more than 3 crore FASTags were issued. The reasonable day-to-day rate sequence through FASTag is more than Rupees 100 crores from 1st March 2021 to 16th March 2021,” Aspect road Transport, Highways and MSMEs Minister Nitin Gadkari told the Rajya Sabha in a written answer.
The executive has mandated the fitment of FASTag in all M and N classes of motorized vehicles with stop from January 1, 2021, during the amendment in Central Motor Autos Guidelines, 1989, he said.
Class ‘M’ stands for a motor automobile with finally four wheels old for carrying passengers and class N’ stands for a motor automobile with finally four wheels old for carrying items, which would possibly additionally additionally raise persons as neatly as to items.
To promote rate payment through digital mode, present for a seamless passage during the rate plazas, amplify transparency, lower ready time and air pollution, the executive has declared all lanes of rate plazas on Nationwide Highways as ‘FASTag lane of the rate plaza’, effective heart of the night of February 15th/16th, 2021, the minister said.
The fitment of FASTag is a necessity below Central Motor Autos Guidelines 1989, he said, adding as per Nationwide Toll road Price (Possibility of Rates and Series) Guidelines, 2008, the person of the car not fitted with “FASTag” or automobile with out genuine, practical “FASTag” has to pay double the suitable rate upon entering a FASTag lane at the rate plaza.
Particular person rate on Nationwide Highways is tranquil as per Nationwide Toll road Price (Possibility of Rates and Series) Guidelines, 2008.
Within the mean time, rate sequence is according to an begin tolling machine, Gadkari said.
On the opposite hand, person rate sequence according to specific Nationwide Toll road usage is additionally being completed in hurry entry-managed expressways and highways, he said.
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