Police in Rajasthan will check for and punish highway speeding offenders using FASTag data

Jaipur: The FASTag data of vehicles will likely be used by traffic officers around the state to start fining speeders. How does it function? Using FastTag cards, a vehicle traveling on interstate and state highways must pay the toll. Using information from FastTag cards, traffic officers may now determine how quickly someone was driving by calculating the time it took to cross from one toll booth to another.

Traffic ADGP VK Singh is planning to implement a strategy that will provide results starting on February 15. According to Singh, “For a month, we checked the FASTag data of vehicles moving between toll plazas in Chittorgarh as part of a trial project. This information was used to determine how long it would take a specific vehicle to travel between toll booths.

This assisted us in determining whether a car had exceeded the highway’s legal speed limit. We sent letters to the owners of any vehicles that disregarded the restriction, asking them to respond within 15 days with an explanation. If their response wasn’t persuasive, they suffered the consequences.

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The state police’s traffic division is working to expand it throughout the entire state, taking its lead from this. Singh continued, “We would request that the IGs of various ranges and SPs of various districts take FASTag data from NHAI and analyze it.

In particular, how the analysis would be carried out and how e-challans to defaulters would be generated, Singh said that “our men from various districts would be taught on this.” He added that police officers from different districts will be trained in batches before the new rule is put into effect.