FASTag is a new system introduced for making payment in Tollgates. It will be mandatory for paying Toll payments through FASTag soon. Initially Government of India had fixed 15-12-2019 as last date for making all the lanes of Toll Plazas into FASTag lane. But now it has been fixed as 15th January 2020.
Government has provided a notification regarding the fee collection through FASTag. If the scanners at the toll plaza failed to scan the FASTag with sufficient fund, then that particular user will be rewarded with a free trip. The exact words from the government notification is given below.
“Provided also that if a vehicle user with a valid, functional FASTag or any such device with sufficient balance in the linked account crossing a fee plaza installed with Electronic Toll Collection infrastructure, is not able to pay user fee through FASTag or any such device owing to malfunctioning of Electronic Toll Collection infrastructure, the vehicle user shall be permitted to pass the fee plaza without payment of any user fee. An appropriate zero transaction receipt shall be issued mandatorily for all such transactions”.
As you can see it is clearly mentioned that if a valid FASTag is not able to be recognized or read by the Electronic Toll Collection Infrastructure, the vehicle user shall be permitted to pass the fee plaza without payment. So don’t pay through cash if you have sufficient fund in your FASTag and is not scanned.
The detailed notification is given below and the document is attached.
MINISTRY OF ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAYS
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 7th May, 2018
G.S.R. 427(E).—In exercise of the powers conferred by section 9 of the National Highways Act, 1956 (48 of 1956), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the National Highways Fee (Determination of Rates and Collection) Rules, 2008 namely: –
1) Short title and commencement.—(1)These rules may be called the National Highways Fee (Determination of Rates and Collection) Amendment Rules, 2018.
(2)They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
2) In the National Highways Fee (Determination of Rates and Collection) Rules, 2008 (hereinafter referred to as the principal rules), in rule 2, in sub-rule (1) after clause (hc), the following clause shall be inserted, namely: –
‘(hd) “Electronic Toll Collection Infrastructure” means set of equipment comprising ofhardware and software which shall facilitate electronic collection of user fees;’.
3) In the principal rules, in rule 6, in sub-rule (3), after the second proviso, the following proviso, shall be inserted, namely:-
“Provided also that if a vehicle user with a valid, functional FASTag or any such device with sufficient balance in the linked account crossing a fee plaza installed with Electronic Toll Collection infrastructure, is not able to pay user fee through FASTag or any such device owing to malfunctioning of Electronic Toll Collection infrastructure, the vehicle user shall be permitted to pass the fee plaza without payment of any user fee. An appropriate zero transaction receipt shall be issued mandatorily for all such transactions”.
