FASTag mandatory for all vehicles from Dec 1: DC

Udupi: Udupi Deputy Commissioner G Jagadeesh informed that as the Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has decided to declare all lanes at the toll-fee plaza on national highways as ‘FASTag lanes’ from December 1, two-wheelers and autorickshaws and all the vehicle owners should mandatorily install FASTag.

Addressing presspersons in this regard Jagadeesh as said FASTag is mandatory at Hejamadi and Sasthana toll plaza in Udupi district.

He further added. “Those who fail to possess FASTag have to pay double the amount. The FASTag facilities can be availed from nationalised and private banks.”

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.

FASTags are issued by 22 certified banks through various channels such as Point-of-Sale (POS) at National Highway toll plazas and select bank branches. They are also available on e-commerce platform such as Amazon. After buying the FASTag, you need to activate it to make it functional at the toll plaza.

The facility can be availed from all toll plazas, Axis Bank, HDFC bank, Syndicate Bank, Paytm, SBI, Bank of Baroda, City Union Bank, Federal Bank, ICICI Bank, Indus Land Bank, IDFC Bank, Karur Vysya Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Punjab National Bank, South Indian Bank.

The NHAI (National Highways Authority of India) Prepaid wallet facility is also available in My FASTag mobile app, where you can load money and get your toll fee deducted from the prepaid wallet instead of getting it directly deducted from a bank account.