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Cover Story Sankalp Yatra of New India

SAVE MONEY AND 99

TIME WITH FASTAG HASSLE-FREE LOANS TO FARMERS; INDIAN TRADITIONAL
KNOWLEDGE WILL BE ACCESSIBLE TO THE WORLD

In view of the long queues at toll plazas
on national highways, corruption in
cash transactions and apprehension
of disputes, the government has
declared all the toll plazas of national
highways into FasTag lanes from the
midnight of February 15/16, 2021.
Along with making FASTag mandatory
in all vehicles, it has been made law
that without FASTag, if a vehicle
comes at the fee plaza, then double
the applicable fee will have to be paid.
The positive effects of this reform are
visible.

97% of vehicles arriving at the fee plaza
n
with FASTag.
According to the data of March, 2022,
n
banks have issued a total of 5 crore
FASTag.
n According to the assessment of the year
2021, 35 Crore liters of fuel was saved
annually due to the use of FASTag.
n More than 9.78 lakh tonnes of carbon
dioxide emissions were reduced.

100 Transparency from GeM

In view of the rampant corruption in the government procurement process in the country, Prime Minister
Narendra Modi launched Government e-Market Place (GeM) portal on 9 August 2016 to make procurement
of government departments corruption free under Digital India. Government procurement of all departments
has been made mandatory through this. Now cooperative societies have also joined this portal.
Procurement of 54 lakh products worth Rs 2.78 lakh crore from 49 lakh sellers on GeM. About one billion US
n
dollars were saved. There are around 62000 government buyers available on GeM. In the financial year 2021-
22, a record Rs 1 lakh crore was purchased through it.

...Amrit Yatra Moving closer to realising dream of a developed

India, with the goal of reaching everyone

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