FASTag has been made mandatory at all toll plazas in the state, and the implementation of this decision has started from April 1. On the first day itself, as many as 11,800 vehicles travelled without FASTag on the Bandra-Worli Sea Bridge, Mumbai-Pune Expressway and Nagpur-Igatpuri Samruddhi Highway under the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC).
MSRDC collected double the toll from all these vehicles and earned additional revenue worth lakhs. The maximum number of 6,000 vehicles without FASTag were found travelling on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway, most of which were light four-wheelers.
The central government started this system six-seven years ago to bring transparency and consistency in toll collection through FASTag. Now, the state government has also started the strict implementation of it.
FASTag has been made mandatory at all toll plazas since April 1, and vehicles travelling without it are being charged double toll. The government and MSRDC had earlier appealed to citizens to affix FASTag stickers.
The situation was no different on the Samruddhi Highway. On Tuesday, 1,300 vehicles travelled on the Nagpur-Igatpuri route without FASTags, and double tolls were collected from them.
Approximately 70,000 vehicles travel on the Bandra-Worli Sea Bridge in Mumbai every day. Out of these, 4,500 vehicles were found to be traveling without FASTags. Out of these, the highest number are four-wheelers, and the double toll has generated a revenue of about Rs 9 lakh.
MSRDC has once again appealed to citizens to immediately affix FASTag stickers on their vehicles to avoid the hassle of double tolls.
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