Government of India extends FASTag roll out date to 15 December, 2019

New Delhi: The government has extended the mandatory FASTag roll out date to 15 December, as per the media report on Friday.

Earlier, it had been decided that from 1 December 2019 all four-wheelers, trucks and buses will have to pay toll electronically on Indian highways through a radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag called a FASTag.

The Ministry for Road Transport and Highways had announced the implementation of FASTags on all vehicles from December 2019. The idea behind switching to an electronic toll collection mechanism like FASTag for private or commercial vehicles was to reduce waiting times at toll plazas on the national highways and keep traffic moving.

The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) had introduced electronic toll collection through FASTag across the country back in 2014, but it was an optional system. Toll plazas had separate lanes dedicated to tag users, but the system wasn’t quite effective. The government has now decided to make FASTag mandatory from 1 December.

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