NEW DELHI: Not less than one in each 5 automotive customers on tolled Nationwide Freeway stretches is now utilizing FASTag Annual Cross to pay the person charge. With an lively person base of 36.3 lakh and round 20,000 new consumers being added each day, the scheme has develop into a runaway success in simply three and a half months since its launch, information present.The FASTag Annual Cross, priced at Rs 3,000, permits non-public automotive house owners to cross 200 toll plazas in a 12 months, successfully bringing down the charge to simply Rs 15 per plaza. It has emerged as essentially the most handy and cost-friendly fee choice for inter-city commuters. Information from greater than a dozen toll plazas present that over 40% of automotive customers are paying the person charge via the annual go.“On the nationwide degree, almost 22% of toll transactions for vehicles are accomplished utilizing the annual go. The newly operational Bijwasan toll plaza on the Dwarka Expressway in Delhi has the very best share, with greater than 50% of such transactions. It’s adopted by the Mundka toll plaza in Delhi (48.2%) and the Jhinjholi plaza in Sonipat, Haryana, the place the share is over 47%,” mentioned a senior NHAI official.Information additional present that on common round 13 lakh toll fee transactions happen via the annual go every day.Officers mentioned preliminary suggestions from toll operators and commuters signifies that there have been hardly any situations of altercation or violence over the brand new system between commuters and user-fee collectors at plazas. They added that the elevated adoption of the system has additionally considerably diminished queues at toll gates. “It has improved the operational effectivity of toll operators. We’ll quickly perform a complete influence evaluation of the scheme,” mentioned a prime official of IHMCL, a subsidiary of NHAI.