Ministry of Road Transport & Highways, Government of India

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(iii) National Award on e-Governance to INAMPRO

The “INAMPRO" project initiated by NHIDCL, a CPSE under this Ministry, has been
conferred with a 'Gold' award under Category-I “Excellence in Government Process Re-
engineering" for the National Award in e-Governance by the Department of Administrative
Reforms and Public Grievances.
(iv) E-tolling
Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) system, the initiative of Ministry of Road Transport and
Highways, has been implemented on pan India basis in order to remove bottlenecks and
ensure seamless movement of trafc and collection of user fee as per the notied rates, using
passive Radio Frequency Identication (RFID) technology. Indian Highways Management
Company Limited (IHMCL), a company under company's act 1956 has been incorporated for
working as implementing agency for ETC with National Payment Corporation of India
(NPCI) functioning as the Central Clearing House (CCH). 22 banks (including Public and
Private sector banks) have been engaged as issuer banks in order to issue FASTag to road
users. A cashback of 2.5% is being offered for the FY 2019-20 in order to incentivize road users
for usage of FASTag. ETC program is live on 446 fee plazas on National Highways. In
addition to FASTag, several other electronic means have also been employed to enable road
users for payment of user fees such as use of PoS machines for collection of fees through
Credit/ Debit cards, use of Pre-paid payment instruments etc. As on 31.03.2019, collectively
banks have issued 45.55 lakh FASTags and with an 8.66 lakhs average daily ETC transactions,
the average daily collection through ETC has increased to ` 19.18 crore with a penetration of
28% in total fee collection.

Progress of FASTag issuance (in Lakh)

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