National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has rolled out a cashless payment mechanism (FASTag) at Fee Plazas on National Highways. FASTag offers near non-stop movement of vehicles through Fee Plazas and convenience of cashless payments of toll fee with nationwide inter-operable Electronic Fee Collection Services. As per a joint study report 2011-12 carried out by the logistic firm Transport Corporation of India and IIM-Kolkata, the estimated annual cost of delay on highways to the Indian economy was Rs. 27000 crore per annum. Another estimate indicated that the impact of additional fuel consumption due to delay and slow speed of vehicles was Rs. 60000 crore per annum. The committee had recommended that the solution to the problem of toll delays is to gradually move towards Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) System.
FASTag is operational on over 335 Fee Plazas on National Highways across the country. Use of FASTag increases user convenience and seamless travel at Fee Plazas thus saving on time, money and fuel.
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