India, March 15 -- Deadline to switch from PayTm FASTag to others ends today. The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) had extended the deadline to March 15 to get new FASTag after the Reserve Bank of India restricted use of PayTm Payments Bank as one of the authorised service providers. As the deadline nears, several users have taken to social media complaining about issued faced while trying to close PayTm FASTag accounts. Unless closed, existing users will not be able to buy new FASTag from other banks.

Among seven crore FASTag users in India, PayTm has around two crore accounts which is nearly 30 per cent of overall users. The digital payment platform has been swamped with requests to shut down its wallet and FASTag accounts a...