New Delhi: Nationwide Highways Authority of India (NHAI) on Wednesday directed all banks issuing FASTags to undertake “rapid” validation of car registration numbers (VRNs) linked to the sensible tags issued by them. The banks have been directed to blacklist FASTags which might be discovered linked to incorrect or invalid VRNs.The choice follows some complaints that VRN captured by FASTag readers didn’t match with the registration quantity displayed on the car’s quantity plate. “Such discrepancies have the potential to undermine enforcement mechanisms and should result in evasion of presidency income and in addition entice penal provisions underneath Motor Autos Act,” the highways authority stated.It stated {that a} appreciable variety of such mismatches are related to FASTags that had been issued previous to the mixing of tags with Vahan database.