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Cover Story Multi-modal Connectivity
FASTAG IN TOLL COLLECTION
All lanes of fee plazas on National
Highways across the country have been
declared as FASTag lanes with effect
from the midnight of 15/16 February
2021 in order to increase the speed of
vehicles and save fuel in the country.
Vehicles without FASTag should pay
double the toll fee at electronic toll
plazas across the country. By March
2022, about 5 crore vehicles have been
issued FASTag.
An estimate for 2021 shows that it has
reduced carbon dioxide emissions by
more than 9.78 lakh tonnes along with
saving 35 crore liters of fuel annually.
Today's India considers speed as
a guarantee of fast development.
This insistence on speed is
reflected today in the Gatishakti
National Master Plan, and in
the National Logistics Policy,
and is also evident in the drive
to increase the speed of our
railways. These trains, which can
reach the speed of 180 kmph, will
change the direction of Indian
Railways, it is my complete belief.
-Narendra Modi, Prime Minister.
of great benefit to our cottage industries, artisans, today is completely different from what it was 8
village industries, street vendors, auto-rickshaw years ago. Indian Railways is now becoming faster,
drivers, and taxi drivers. In the last 8 years, we cleaner, more modern, safer, and citizen-friendly.
have worked on a complete transformation of rail The Rail network has also reached those parts of the
connectivity. The experience of traveling on Railways country where it was difficult to even imagine.
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