FASTag : Electronic toll

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      FASTags are prepaid rechargeable tags for toll collection that allow automatic payment deduction from the FASTag, they are normally affixed on the windscreen of your vehicle. With the help of a FASTag, you will not have to stop your vehicle at toll plazas to pay the toll. As soon as the vehicle crosses the toll plaza, the toll fee will get deducted from the bank account/prepaid wallet linked to the FASTag affixed on the vehicle's windscreen. An activated FASTtag works on Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology. Moreover, these FASTags do not have any expiry date, that is, they can be used as long as they are readable at the toll plaza and have not tampered.


Things to know About FASTag :

  1.  In case you are going without a FASTag, look for the hybrid lane in toll plazas where FASTag, as well as other modes of payment, will be accepted. The ministry of road transport and highways has instructed that one lane on either side of the toll plaza shall be kept as a hybrid lane. You will, however, have to pay double the toll tax as a penalty. At some toll plazas, you may find more than one hybrid lane as the government has allowed them to keep upto 25% lanes as hybrid ones for a month.
  2. FASTags are priced at ₹100 but the government was giving it out for free for few days last month to popularise its use. Besides, you also need to pay ₹150 as a security deposit and recharge it as per your use.
  3. Designed as an Aadhaar card for vehicles, FASTags are not issued without KYC documents. You will need to submit the Registration Certificate (RC) of your vehicle, your passport-size photograph as well as your own identity proof document.
  4. Besides toll plaza counters, you can buy FASTags from banks like SBI, ICICI Bank, Axis Bank, HDFC Bank, Paytm Payments Bank, etc. It is also being sold online on Amazon.
  5. Once you buy the FASTag you can either use the e-wallet option and keep recharging it with online payment modes like debit card, credit card, internet banking, UPI, etc. Alternatively, you can also link it to your bank account. But before you recharge , you need to activate the tag by entering details related to you and your vehicle in MY FASTag mobile app.

      

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