Traffic back on highways! Rs 103 crore toll collected through FASTags by July 1

On 1 July 2021, a complete of 63 lakh FASTag transactions have been recorded.

With the variety of Covid circumstances decreasing in India, site visitors appears to be hurrying again to the highways, as per the official knowledge on utilization of FASTags. The toll collected via this digital mode by the top of June touched Rs 97 crore in a day, and Rs 103 crore by 1 July 2021. This determine is simply in need of the all-time day by day excessive of Rs 107 crore, collected within the month of March, simply earlier than the second Covid wave hit, as per the official knowledge. With the Modi authorities choosing a calibrated unlock of enterprise actions, the FASTags have turn out to be the popular mode of toll assortment in as many as 780 toll plazas, together with all 660 toll plazas beneath the Nationwide Highways Authority of India (NHAI). Thus far, greater than 3.45 crore FASTags have been issued, in keeping with an IR report.

On 1 July 2021, a complete of 63 lakh FASTag transactions have been recorded. By FASTag tolls, the federal government earned Rs 2,576 crore throughout the month of June, a bounce of 21% from Might. Based on officers, barring sure states, like Tamil Nadu, Odisha, West Bengal and Rajasthan, the uptick in FASTag transactions is regular. Within the month of March, simply earlier than the second Covid wave hit, the utilization of FASTag hit a peak of 19.3 crore transactions a month. However from April, when the variety of novel coronavirus circumstances began spiking, that determine dipped to 16.4 crore transactions price round an quantity of Rs 2,776 crore.

In Might, when COVID-19 lively circumstances reached a peak of 90 lakh, tag knowledge confirmed as many as 11.6 crore transactions price round Rs 2,100 crore. Over most of Might, the cities and cities which have been majorly hit by Covid, have been in varied modes of lockdown. Based on officers, knowledge from the month of June point out that results of the second COVID-19 wave, as signified by freeway site visitors, could also be on the wane. Final 12 months, round this time, in the midst of the primary wave of the pandemic, the FASTag transactions stood at round 8 crore in complete, translating into Rs 1,511 crore. In September 2020, which noticed the height of the primary wave with over 26 lakh Covid circumstances, highways clocked as many as 11 crore FASTag transactions price Rs 1,940 crore, the report added.