RFID Current Affairs, GK & News
Promoting Digital and IT based payment through FASTag
Ministry of Road Transport and Highway recently notified draft notification to seek comments from the stakeholders on making FASTag mandatory for old vehicles sold before 1st December 2017. Key points It proposed, having a valid FASTag will be mandatory while getting a new 3rd Party Insurance through an amendment in FORM 51 (certificate of Insurance). ..
Month: Current Affairs - September, 2020
Category: India Nation & States Current Affairs
Topics: FASTag • RFID • RFID Tags
Indian Railways to complete RFID-tagging in All Wagons by Dec 2022
The Indian Railways has decided to complete the job of fitting radio-frequency identification tags in all the wagons of the transporter as these tags will be used for tracking the wagons. Indian Railways is planning to complete tagging of all wagons by December 2022. Details of the Announcement As per the statement issued by the ..
Month: Current Affairs - July, 2020
Category: India Nation & States Current Affairs
Topics: Coaches • Indian Railways • Locomotives • RFID • RFID Tags • Wagons
COVID-19 Quarantine Alert System: Geo Fencing application to locate Quarantine Violators
The Department of Telecommunications has issued Standard Operating Procedure for the use of COVID-19 Quarantine Alert System (CQAS). The CAQS is an application used to track COVID-19 patients who have violated quarantine. Highlights The application was developed by DoT and C-DoT (Centre for Development of Telematics). The app collects phone data of the quarantine violator ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2020
Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs
Topics: Department of Telecommunication • geo-fencing • GPS • mobile application • Quarantine • RFID
Indian Railways to roll out Automatic Identification and Data Collection
The Indian Railways is to implement plans for RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification). The railways is to tag around 3,50,000 rolling stocks by 2021. Highlights Under the programme, around 3,500 coaches have been fitted with RFID so far. This will help the Indian Railways in early identification of rolling stock. A rolling stock includes carriages, locomotives, ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2020
Category: India Nation & States Current Affairs
Topics: Centre for Railway Information Systems • Indian Railways • Make in India • Railway Modernisation • RFID
Conference on ‘One Nation One Tag – FASTag’ held in New Delhi
Union Minister for Road Transport & Highways Nitin Gadkari inaugurated a conference on ‘One Nation One Tag – FASTag’ in New Delhi, to roll out the process for having a unified electronic system across the country. MoS Road Transport and Highways, Gen. (Retd.) V.K Singh and ministers and senior officials from several states were also ..
Month: Current Affairs - October, 2019
Category: Economy & Banking Current Affairs
Topics: FASTag • GST e-way bill system • IHMCL • Nitin Gadkari • One Nation One Tag • RFID