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New Highway Toll Collection Rule For Non-FASTag Users To Incentivise Digital Payments

Non-FASTag users will be charged 1.25 times of regular toll amount if users opt to pay using UPI while cash payments will be doubled.

New Delhi: With an aim to reduce cash transactions, the government on Saturday said that from November 15, vehicles entering a fee plaza on a National Highway without a valid, functional FASTag will be charged 1.25 times of regular toll amount if users opt to pay using UPI. Currently, those without a valid FASTag are required to pay double the toll charges in cash.

The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways in a statement said in a significant step to incentivise digital payments and eliminate cash transactions at the user fee plazas on

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