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4 ways to deal with challenges you might face with FASTag

FASTag is an easy and efficient way of handling toll payments on national highways and on state highways. It is a (RFID) Radio Frequency Identification Device enabled tag that propagates automatic deduction of toll payment.

The FASTag comes with the feature to be provided as per your requirement, or can be linked to a prepaid account/wallet from where the money will be automatically withdraw. The FASTag is fixed onto the commercial and passenger vehicle’s windscreen. When it passes through the toll plaza, the FASTag is automatically scanned and the money automatically deducted from linked account/wallet. 

FASTag ETC is implemented in over 500 plus toll plazas across all national and state highways in India.

Some benefits of FASTag:

Saving time

Make payment easily

No need to carry cash

Online recharge

Getting value for your money, since FASTag can subject you to periodic discounts and assured cashbacks upto 2.25%

Getting SMS notification about toll deduction on your registered mobile number

FASTag Challenges and Solution:

1. Loss of FASTag: 

Problem: The first and the most common problem that came up was the distress expressed by the drivers about loss of their FASTags. The worry stems from the fact that since this card is fixed as a tag on the windscreen, it can be subject to theft or loss.

Solution: In this case, you can immediately notify the issuing agency or bank about the theft/loss. Then they can process blocking the account and can help you with obtaining another tag.

2. Technical Glitch:

Problem: Sometimes when the toll charge may be deducted twice from your account, in the wake of a technical error. Else you may face the issue of your FASTag not working. What this essentially means is that your vehicle may go through the RFID scanner, and it is not able to detect attached  FASTag on windscreen.

Solution: The bank in which your tag account is registered with can help you with this. By going on FASTag customer portal, you can register a claim regarding double deduction of toll amount, and can put a request for a re-compensation.

3. Unauthorized cars in FASTag Lane:

Problem: It is common for drivers to wait for their turns longer than expected in FASTag lanes because of vehicles without FASTag come down in the queue. This leads increases their wait time significantly, which is one of the major FASTag problems faced by many of drivers. Moreover, drivers feel that this defeats the entire purpose of FASTag and assigned lanes.

Solution: There need to be strict measures to ensure that the entry way into the assigned FASTag lanes also has a scanner. The scanner will be the available to detect the FASTag securely attached on the windscreen of vehicles. This will verify that entry is allowed only to automobiles that have FASTag. When these measures are in place, the user satisfaction and time saving opportunities will grow multiple times.

4. Blacklisted FASTag:

Problem: This issue is a fairly common for RFID users. A FASTag gets blacklisted in the event the user fails to maintain enough balance in their FASTag account/wallet. Thus if the user attempt to pass through the toll plazas with inadequate balance in their FASTag account, they would not be able to avail the (NETC) National Electronic Toll Collection services, forcing them to pay via cash.

Solution: For FASTag problems of this nature, the solution is quite simple. As a FASTag user, one must be knowledgeable of the current balance in account/wallet, such that they do not end up facing this challenge. Regular recharge of the wallet is a must to ensure seamless passage through toll plazas.

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Job which would no longer need Manpower as much

We all are aware that future is unpredictable electrifying charge with latest new technologies and new opportunities, but for some the future doesn’t look dazzling, and we want to announce few things with all.

According to study by Oxford University, it is found that above 40% of current/present jobs will vanish in next few years with few of them being completely automated or at the minimum modernize to point where fraction of the personnel is needed. So this will heavily strike the way you plan for future as the environs is changing! In this blog We will explain you few jobs profile that will drastically change in upcoming era. If you are presently working in either of following industries it can be  a genius call to look for another alternatives. Do not say, We did not notify you!!

Although we cannot have a comprehensive list to it, there may be few profiles which we predict that have a high probability of getting vanished or modernized in next few years:

 Farmer:

Statistical data:

Employed in 2010: 1,202,500

Employed in 2020: 1,106,400

Total Change: 96100

Percentage of change: -8%

This doesn't mean, all of foods, vegetables, grains will be manufactured with a few clicks on a computer. However, fewer farmers are  now required to cultivate grains each year due to technological advances and smart new ways to produce higher yield with less human labor required as compared.

Farming was huge when it comes to employment. This has changed heavily.

Postal Worker:

Statistical data:

Employed in 2010: 5,24,300

Employed in 2020: 3,85,500

Total Change: 1,38,800

Percentage of change: -26.5%

The post office is seeing its importance decay. People simply are not writing letters with tree pulp, pen and ink anymore. The employer in India, US etc. will soon unleash many employees and abolish its pension plan. Private Logistics and transportation industries are taking over and the bankrupt federal government is going to cut anything they can.

Door to Door sales workers & news and other vendors:

Statistical data:

Employed in 2010: 1,58,800

Employed in 2020: 1,02,100

Total change: 13200

Percentage of Change: -11.5%

Because of Digital Marketing, company can reach to a gigantic audience in a way that is both cost effective and quantifiable. You can save money and reach to more customers with less money than door-to-door marketing method. To reduce audience and allow them to realize you personally which can help to create brand allegiance.

Bank Teller’s:

 Nowadays most employers are more eager to directly credit salary in to accounts. You can get the money out using an ATM. You can directly deposit money or you need to directly deposit a cheque, then you can even do that using mobile now. If the teller exist as a endowment position of sorts, there won’t be that many.

Librarians:

Libraries were once the only source of knowledge for everyone who could not afford expensive or big budget books. Today, we can easily  Internet Research which  usually starts with Google and other search engines or other online database. When we can beam entire books into computer, laptop and tablets from anywhere, we won’t need that many people to help us get the information into our hands.

Military Pilots and Soldiers:

The Military is the most sensitive industry to innovation! It is the first one to grab it and implement or deploy it. If you go back in the time where wars were decided based on who holds the largest number of Soldiers, Today it’s a technology or Artificial Intelligence play. You no longer see people holding swords and riding horses into war, because that would be inefficient. Drones can hit a target more accurate than any human. There is still a need for human soldiers, but not as we know then. These are the special ops, the best of the best who are developed only when there is no other technology play.

Tax Examiner and Collector:

Right after bill payments, taxes have gone digital. Most companies already opted to use technologies for streamlining the tax monitoring and collection process, instead of hiring new extra personnel.

With the ever raging technology and digitization, we would no longer be dependent on manpower for getting things done. We are already in a digital era and this is just going to spread like fire soon. Although we need human beings to create this technology, we are unknowingly making our future livelihood difficult by endangering our own jobs. Hence it’s difficult to decide whether technology going to be a boon forever or will it feel like a curse over the years. To know more on it, stay tuned with us…  

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Today’s Green logistics:  Tomorrow’s future

Introduction:

Green Logistics is a process of diminish damage to nature or environment because logistics as well as Supply Chain Operation of group or company. Green Logistics includes transportation and resources in the depth process like as inventory, procurement management, warehouse management, supplier and buyer and, so on.

Sustainable Logistics is a real view of SCM processes, Logistics and technology that marks the environmental, economical, social and legal aspects of supply chain management components.

The main principle of Green Logistics and Sustainable Logistics is socially responsible material/products and operations are not only good for planet and living things, but also good for create or building positive brand awareness, diminish environmental impact and generate long-term revenue.

Some best example of Green Logistics:

Transportation: Minimize the energy and fuel consumption. Use Electric vehicles. Google used AI based car and bi-cycle in their campus.

Efficiency: Reduce waste during operation or process that helps to increase the efficiency.

Design: Make things easier for logistics. Like furniture require small assembly, but it fitted into standard box.

Reverse logistics: Recycle the product which is returned by customer.

Scope of Green Logistics:

It is suitable and useful for the environment

It very helpful in an Eco-friendly & efficient transport and distribution system

It helpful in the material handling

It helps in waste management

It help in packaging and transport

It effectively manages the flow of information and product between point of starting and point of destination

Environmental problems caused:

Availability of Fuel and cost of fuel

Lot of million tons of packaging is used yearly in manufacturing industry which contains paper and plastic

Papers are produced from cutting the trees

Aerodynamic drag responsible for lots of fuel consumption of multi-dimensional trucks

Need of E-Logistics:

To expand Environmental constraint due to global warming.

CSR

Useful for industries and organizations

Eco- friendly

To develop environmental awareness to employees and stakeholders

Solution for increasing cost of fuel

Green Logistics shown into:

Transportation

Warehousing

Value added services like Pallet and container pooling, packing technologies and tracking and tracing

Product designing phase

Production phase

Material or Services

Reverse logistics

New technologies for Green logistics:

IoT (Internet of Things)

Environment and technology

Analytics and advanced machine learning

Cloud computing

Advantages of Green Logistics:

Financial Benefits:

Revenue generation

Cost reduction

More asset utilization

Improve the customer service

 Environmental Benefits:

Wastage reduction 

Improve the energy efficiency

Minimized air, water  emission and reduce pollution Minimum fuel consumption

Social Benefits:

Reduced immunity impacts

Minimized noise

Minimized traffic congestion

Improve health

Improve safety

Improve security

Other advantages:

Increase productivity

Higher motivation to employees

Increase job opportunity

Minimized the carbon emission

Better utilization of natural assets

Green Logistics is very important feature which all the companies should implement to prevent the natural resources and environment and improve the health of peoples through the minimized the pollution.