SOURCE: EODB NEWS | PUBLISHED: OCTOBER 17, 2025
NHAI has rolled out a citizen-led cleanliness initiative that allows travellers to report unclean highway toilets and earn a ₹1,000 FASTag recharge in return. This smart incentive aims to ensure cleaner and more hygienic facilities across India’s highways by rewarding responsible travel and active participation.
NHEV (National Highway for Electric Vehicles) enthusiastically supports this progressive step by NHAI, as it perfectly aligns with its mission of building highways that are not just electric and efficient, but also clean, green, and traveller-friendly. Together, such initiatives bring us closer to creating sustainable corridors that redefine the highway experience for India’s commuters.
As part of its commitment to clean and green infrastructure, NHEV has integrated Air Toilets at its 3rd Generation Energy Stations. These waterless, eco-friendly facilities aim to provide hygienic amenities while aligning with the vision of smart, sustainable highways across the country.
Together, initiatives like these mark a step forward in redefining India’s highway landscape, blending technology, sustainability, and citizen participation to ensure cleaner, greener, and smarter travel corridors.
Unclean toilets in highways have long been a significant challenge for travellers, affecting children’s and the elderly’s hygiene and degrading the overall road travel experience.
Abhijeet Sinha, Project Director, NHEV
NHAI’s initiative to reward citizens for reporting unclean toilets is a commendable step toward addressing this issue. We at NHEV already extend comfort, hygiene and confidence by building airport-standard waterless air toilets and urinals at our 3G energy stations after each 100 km to make upcoming e-highways more traveller-friendly as available on our national policy on roadside amenities ‘Hamsafar’ & ‘Rajmarg Yatra’ app.
Report dirty toilets for ₹1,000 recharge on FASTag. How NHAI’s new drive works
SOURCE: HINDUSTAN TIMES | PUBLISHED: OCTOBER 14, 2025
The initiative will continue till October 31, 2025, on all National Highways across the country
Highway users can now get ₹1,000 recharge on their FASTag accounts as reward for reporting dirty toilets at toll plazas under National Highway Authority of India’s latest cleanliness drive. The scheme is valid for the reward is valid till October 31, 2025, news agency PTI reported.
Here’s how you can get free recharge of ₹1,000 on your FASTag
- Highway users can upload geo-tagged pictures on the latest version of the ‘Rajmargyatra’ app and enter details such as user name, location, Vehicle Registration Number (VRN) and mobile number, an official statement said.
- Each VRN reporting such dirty toilets will be eligible for a reward of ₹1,000 in the form of FASTag recharge and will be credited to the linked VRN provided by the user.
- The reward is non-transferable and cannot be claimed in cash.
- The initiative will continue till October 31, 2025 on all National Highways across the country. Each VRN can claim the reward only once during the period.
- Only toilets constructed, operated, or maintained under NHAI jurisdiction come under the reward scheme. Other toilets located at retail fuel stations, dhabas, or other public facilities not under NHAI’s control are excluded, according to the statement.
Further terms
Also, each NH toilet facility shall be eligible for reward consideration only once per day, irrespective of the number of reports received for that location.
In case multiple reports are received for the same toilet on the same day, only the first valid image reported through the Rajmargyatra app shall be considered eligible for the reward.
The statement said only clear, geo-tagged, and time-stamped images captured through the app shall be considered. Any manipulated, duplicate, or previously reported images will be rejected.
Entries shall be verified through Al-assisted screening and manual validation, wherever necessary.
(With PTI inputs)