BHUBANESWAR : Make sure your vehicle is equipped with FASTag before you embark on any tour. Four-wheelers without FASTag will not be allowed to pass through any toll gate in the State from January 1. With the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways making FASTags mandatory for payment of toll across all plazas from the beginning of the next year, the NHAI authorities have urged four-wheeler owners to ensure that their vehicles are fitted with the device.
Odisha has 14 toll plazas including the one at Laxmannath that comes under West Bengal regional office. The FASTag reading devices have been fixed with all lanes in these toll gates along with the handhold devices that can be operated by the toll collection staff in case the auto-reading mechanism fails.