India’s FASTag Era Ends: GPS Based Tolling to Launch – 01 May 2025
The FASTag will all but be taken off in India, with an opening of the gates for launch of the GPS based toll collection system across the nation from May 1st.
Travel on GPT: Out with FASTags in Indian Highways
In another world shaking revolution in the national highways of India. The Union Minister for Transport Nitin Gadkari announced that the Indian government with effect from May 1, would abolish the FASTag system of toll collection and would replace it with a cutting edge satellite based GPS road tolling system. In simple language this means vehicle users would from now use satellites to pay tolls from anywhere.
The New Tolling Era: GPS Technology Would Bill You On The Go
The onboard unit (OBU) will determine the distance that vehicles travel along the toll road using GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) rather than RFID based scanners. Use would be charged accurately according to the kilometers traveled and would have automatic deduction from your bank account or a digital wallet without stopping, scanning or queuing.
Phase one is set to be for trucks and buses, while cars will come next.
Larger commercial vehicles like trucks and buses will be inducted in a few months after the system is operational for private cars and light vehicles. All within the purview of Indian GPS-(NavIC) based electronic toll collection system with all elements of secure handling and privacy of location related data remaining within the Indian domain.
Why Is FASTag Decommissioned?
The FASTag feature was for toll collection via RFID technology in 2016 that drastically reduced congestion at toll plazas. The system has witnessed many technical abnormalities over the last two years waiting hours in queues, and even finding fraud against. While successful at first, the public became agitated over inefficiencies of the system and it made sense for the government to search for a more intelligent alternative.
Tolling of Highways Enters a Digital Sphere
The highway tolling will largely save fuel and time expended to travel and anything else will demolish physical structures at toll booths. This is also in keeping with the broader goal toward building smart digital interconnected networks of this country to facilitate speed mobility ecologically friendly.
What This Means to Indian Drivers
For many, this new development will make driving easier and the tolls clearer for millions of vehicle owners. No more stopping at toll gates. No more ambiguous deductions. Mere automatic distance-based toll payments, all supported by state-of-the-art satellite technology.
From now on, India stops its FASTag system but enters a new dawn for digital highway tolling with a smarter, faster, and safer system that would be set to world standards for innovating road infrastructure.
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