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Planning a road trip or just tired of waiting at toll plazas? FASTag makes your highway drives faster and hassle-free by enabling automatic toll payments. But once you receive your FASTag, it’s not ready to use right away; it needs to be activated. In this blog, let's take a look at how FASTag activation works, whether you’ve bought it online, at a bank, or at a toll booth.
Getting the tag is just the first step. FASTag works only when it is linked to your vehicle and a prepaid wallet or bank account. Activation ensures that your tag is verified, valid, and ready to be used at toll plazas across India.
FASTags can be purchased from different sources, so the activation process entirely depends on where you get yours.
When you buy a FASTag from a bank, either online or offline, it is usually pre-activated. But you still need to:
If you received your FASTag at a toll booth, it may come in an inactive state. To activate it, you need to:
For FASTags ordered from digital wallet providers:
Listed below are the documents that are required for FASTag activation:
Vehicle RC
In most cases, FASTag activation happens within 15 minutes to a few hours after completing the steps. In some cases, especially if manual verification is needed, it may take up to 24 hours.
In case you miss activating the FASTag, here is what might happen:
For something so small, a FASTag handles a big part of the driving experience. Activation is usually a one-time step, but it’s the one that gets everything else moving. Once done, it quietly does its job, i.e., helping toll payments happen without cash, queues, or delays.
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