MoRTH asks NIC to ensure capturing FASTag details

The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has decided to ensure capturing of FASTag details while registering or issuing fitness certificate to vehicles all over the country. Ministry of Road Transport & Highways has set up a central depository called Vahan to store data relating to all vehicles.

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Key-Points

Vahan’ is the National vehicle registry, which intends to collate all the information available with road transport authorities for easy access by both citizens and regulators.

Vahan allows access to all details related to vehicles such as registration number, chassis/engine number, body/fuel type, colour, manufacturer and model and provides various online services to citizens.

Driving Licence and related data are automated through a separate application called ‘Sarathi’.

FASTag

The tag is valid for five years and comes in seven different colours — violet, orange, yellow, green, pink, blue, black. Each colour is assigned to a particular category of vehicles.

It was rolled out in April 2016, and the Government made it mandatory from December 1, 2017 for all new cars and trucks to be fitted with a FASTag before they were sold.

To encourage the use of FASTags, the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) refunds 5% of the total monthly transactions.

Indian Highways Management Company Limited (IHMCL) (a company incorporated by National Highways Authority of India) and National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI) are implementing this program.

FASTag is presently operational at both, national and state highways.