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Plan FASTag top-ups from your toll usage: daily burn, days of balance left, recommended recharge and the return-journey saving.
This planner converts a toll routine into a FASTag burn rate — cost per journey, spend per day, month and year — and returns the date the current balance runs down to your chosen buffer plus the top-up that will cover the next stretch. It applies the return-journey rule in the National Highways Fee (Determination of Rates and Collection) Rules, 2008, where a return trip completed within 24 hours costs one and a half one-way fares instead of two. Aimed at daily commuters and anyone tired of a tag going low at the plaza.
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Enter the values you already know.
Fine-tune the options to match your scenario.
Read the result and use it in your planning or reporting.
Prices a same-day round trip at 1.5 fares, the way the NH fee rules do.
Says which day the balance reaches your buffer and what to load.
Compares a monthly pass price against your actual monthly toll spend.
Not for cars, jeeps and vans. NHAI withdrew the minimum-balance requirement for fee class 4 vehicles in February 2021, so a tag works as long as the balance covers the crossing. Individual issuing banks still hold a security deposit and some keep their own threshold, and a negative balance gets the tag blocked.
One and a half times the one-way fee, provided the return journey is completed within 24 hours through the same plaza, under the National Highways Fee Rules, 2008. That is a 25% saving against paying two single fares, which is why a daily commuter should count round trips rather than crossings.
Enough to cover your daily burn for as long as you want to go between top-ups. If you cross a ₹85 plaza and return the same day, five days a week, the burn is roughly ₹91 a day, so a month of cover needs about ₹2,800. The calculator rounds the figure up to the nearest hundred.
At many national highway plazas, yes — the fee rules provide a discounted monthly pass for a non-commercial vehicle whose owner lives within 20 km of the plaza, with proof of residence. The pass price is notified plaza by plaza; enter it in the planner and it will tell you whether it beats what you currently spend.
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