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“Cash payments astatine toll plazas volition beryllium discontinued for travellers connected National Highways from April 10, 2026,” the Road Transport and Highways Ministry has said.
In a gazette notification, the Ministry has said that successful cases wherever a conveyance enters a toll interest plaza without a valid FASTag, users tin inactive wage via Unified Payment Interface (UPI), but astatine a higher complaint of 1.25 times the applicable toll fee.
A elder NHAI authoritative said the determination is aimed astatine reducing agelong queues astatine toll gates and marque road question smoother for commuters.
The authoritative said currency payments volition nary longer beryllium accepted astatine the toll booths from April 10 and FASTag volition stay the superior mode of toll collection, portion UPI volition service arsenic the fallback outgo enactment for vehicles that get without a valid FASTag.
"If the idiosyncratic of a conveyance enters a interest plaza without a FASTag oregon a valid functional FASTag, arsenic the lawsuit whitethorn be, and opts to wage interest done the Unified Payment Interface (UPI), helium shall wage 1.25 times of the idiosyncratic interest applicable to that class of conveyance successful accordance with the provisions of sub-rule (2) of regularisation 4." "Provided that if the proprietor oregon operator of the conveyance does not opt to wage a interest successful the mode specified nether this rule, specified conveyance shall beryllium dealt successful accordance with regularisation 14," the notification said.
Recently, NHAI besides crossed 50 lakh subscribers for its FASTag yearly pass, which allows users to marque up to 200 toll crossings for ₹3,000 per year. Since its motorboat connected August 15, a full of 26.55 crore transactions person been carried retired done these passes.
There are much than 1,150 interest plazas connected assorted National Highways and Expressways successful the country.
