New Delhi, Dec. 13 -- The government at the Centre has postponed the deadline for mandating FASTags to December 15, giving some more time to citizens to buy and put FASTag on their vehicles.

The Centre, in a move to enhance digital payments and reduce bottlenecks at national highways has mandated all lanes of national highways toll plazas to be declared as "FASTag lanes" by December 15.

However, one lane will be kept as a 'hybrid' lane to allow cash payments for the earlier roll out phases, said the National Highway Authority (NHAI) of India.

In order to fasten its sale before the deadline, Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, announced that all FASTags sold by the NHAI will be given free of cost till December...