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Showing posts with label Safe ePayments Booster 2. Show all posts
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Wednesday, October 29, 2014

ETC to go live in India on October 31st, 2014

            The end is over, the test phase is over. Now it is time to go live.

On October31, 2014 Shri Nitin Gadkari, India’s Highway Minister will inaugurate the Electronic Toll Collection system
            Due to unavoidable issues, the launch was postponed from October 27 to October 31.

"The launching of the Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) system has been rescheduled. The Union Minister of Road Transport & Highways, Shri Nitin Gadkari will now inaugurate the system on October 31 instead of October 27," an official statement said.
            The pilot project for Interoperable ETC system of 10 toll plazas between Mumbai (Charoti) and Ahmedabad was successful and seamless ETC on this section is successfully in operation.

            The live roll-out is planned completed on the Delhi-Mumbai route via Haryana, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Maharashtra.

            ETC has already been installed at 55 Toll Plazas and their integration with Central Clearing House (CCH) operators has almost been completed.

The central government has issued orders to incorporate ETC lanes as a mandatory clause in the contracts awarded for all the highways projects in future.

"Action will be taken to include ETC system by means of supplementary agreement in those projects which have not yet been started," the statement said.

Necessary amendments have already been made in the Central Motor Vehicle Rules, 1989 for fitment of Radio Frequency Identification tag on vehicles for ETC.

In order to remove the bottlenecks and ensure seamless movement of traffic and collection of toll as per the notified rates, Government had constituted a committee on Electronic Toll Collection technology for use on National Highways under the chairmanship of Shri Nandan Nilekani, Ex-Chairman, Unique Identification Authority of India.
The Committee's mandate was to examine all technologies available for ETC and recommend the most suitable technology for local conditions. Considering user convenience, rate of acceptance and ease of implementation, the passive Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) based on EPC, Gen-2, ISO 18000-6C Standards for ETC technology was adopted by the Government.

Once the Toll Plaza is migrated to ECT mode, it will have a dedicated lane for RFID fitted vehicles.  A fine will be levied on Non-RFID vehicles entering the dedicated lane. This fine is expected to discourage non-RFID vehicles to migrate to RFID mode quickly.


The IHMCL core message is: “Experience the freedom of near non-stop movement through toll plazas and the convenience of cashless payment of toll with our nation-wide interoperable Electronic Toll Collection Services”.


Saturday, August 16, 2014

Safe ePayments Booster 2 – Indian Railways Go India Card


            Another step towards LessCash society.

            For the last one month or so, Indian Railways Go India Card was in the testing stage. Northern Railways was the chosen division for the test phase.
Minister of Railways, Shri S.D.Sadananda Gowda formally launched the Go India Card at a function in Mumbai on 13th August.
GO India Card is a pan India smart card to enable passengers to pay for tickets for long distance reserved, unreserved, and suburban journeys as a pilot project.
            The chief features of Go India Smart Card are:
  • It can be used a nominated UTS counters and Automatic Ticket Vending Machines (ATVMs) and nominated PRS counters for reserved tickets
  • It is a contact-less smart card: no need to swipe or insert into a slot.
  • The pilot project to be implemented on the following two sectors:
a)    New Delhi – Howrah sector at 6 stations.: New Delhi, Kanpur, Allahabad, Dhanbad, Asansol, Howrah
b)   New Delhi – Mumbai sector at 6 stations: New Delhi, Kota, Vadodara, Ratlam, Surat, Mumbai Central.
  • Initially, the card can be issued by paying Rs. 70/- where passenger can get Rs. 20/- balance. After that the card can be recharged for Rs. 20/- or in multiples of Rs. 50/- up to Rs. 5000/-. Maximum limit can be Rs. 10,000/-.
  • Go-India smart card has lifetime validity.
  • Go India Smart Card can be utilized to for hassle-free purchase of all modes of rail tickets in the pilot sectors.
  • Go-India Smart Card will be used for Indian Railway application i.e. Unreserved Ticketing System (UTS), Passenger Reservation System (PRS) and Retiring Room (RR) counters and existing Automatic Ticket Vending Machines (ATVM)s. 

  • In the future, Go India Smart Card will be rolled out to all parts of India.


  • Go-India smart card will be a separate card from existing ATVM smart card. Go-India smart card can be used across UTS, PRS, RR and existing ATVM of Indian Railway but existing ATVM smart card can be used o­nly across ATVMs of that region. 
  • Go-India smart card is interoperable across various applications and UTS thin clients can work in disconnected mode for 3 days hence issuance of duplicate card will be allowed o­nly after 3 days i.e. 3 days excluding the day to mark card for duplicate.
  • Validity of Go-India smart card will unlimited but, if no transaction are done within 6 months on Go-India smart card then smart card will be temporary deactivated which can be activated again by paying Rs. 50/- as activation charge. 
  • At the time of issuance/recharge of Go-India smart card, actual amount will be top-up o­n smart card and discount will be given on face value of UTS tickets instead of existing bonus logic used for ATVM smart card. 
  • Currently, passengers are allowed to take non-concessional journey ticket, platform ticket and renew non-concessional season ticket through ATVM. 
  • However, there is no bonus advantage given on renewal of season ticket and journey tickets in non-suburban section beyond 150 KMs through ATVM kiosks.
  • On  Go-India Smart card at ATVMs/UTS counters, instead of giving bonus advantage, discount (5%) will be given on ticket face value and passenger can take non-concessional season ticket through UTS counters also but as per policy, passenger will get discount o­n suburban journey ticket, non-suburban journey ticket upto 150 KMs, platform ticket o­nly, BPT ticket, miscellaneous ticket and money receipts will not be allowed through Go-India smart card. 
  • In case of PRS/RR tickets, there is no bonus/discount advantage given at the time of booking and during booking/issuance of ticket, ticket fare/amount will be directly debit from the Go-India smart card.
  • Tuning into the life-style changes of the public, the Go-India Smart card would afford rail passengers advantages like avoiding problems of Coin Change and save valuable passenger time (queue time).  


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