{"id":966232,"date":"2025-10-06T08:44:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T03:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=966232"},"modified":"2025-10-06T09:19:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T03:49:41","slug":"fastag-penalty-charges-govt-says-pay-1-25x-if-traveling-without-valid-fastag-through-upi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/06\/fastag-penalty-charges-govt-says-pay-1-25x-if-traveling-without-valid-fastag-through-upi\/","title":{"rendered":"FASTag penalty charges: Govt says pay 1.25x if traveling without valid FASTag through UPI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From November 15, vehicles without a FASTag, or with an invalid or non-functional tag, will be allowed to pay 1.25 times the regular toll via UPI. This comes as a relief compared to the current rule, under which drivers without a valid FASTag must pay double the toll in cash. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In a significant step to incentivize digital payments and eliminate cash transactions at the user fee plazas on National Highways for Non-FASTag users, the Government of India has amended National Highways Fee (Determination of Rates and Collection) Rules, 2008. Under the new rule, vehicles entering a fee plaza without a valid, functional FASTag will be charged twice the applicable user fee, if the fee payment is made in cash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From November 15, vehicles without a FASTag, or with an invalid or non-functional tag, will be allowed to pay 1.25 times the regular toll via UPI. This comes as a relief compared to the current rule, under which drivers without a valid FASTag must pay double the toll in cash. &#8220;In a significant step to incentivize digital payments and eliminate cash transactions at the user fee plazas on National Highways for Non-FASTag users, the Government of India has amended National Highways Fee (Determination of Rates and Collection) Rules, 2008. Under the new rule, vehicles entering a fee plaza without a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-966232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=966232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}