Bhubaneswar: The Odisha State Transport Authority (STA) has deployed new SMS gateway ‘ODISTA’ to cater to various services offered to the citizens.
The STA will now send SMS from its new SMS gateway ‘ODISTA’ to the applicants of various services relating to driving licence and vehicles. Earlier, the SMS was sent from Sarathi and Vahan SMS gateway.
The applicants of LL & DL will receive SMS after submission of application, payment of fee, booking of slot for DL/LL test, result of the test over SMS from ODISTA.
Similarly applicants of other DL related services like renewal, change of address etc will receive SMS. The vehicle owners will receive SMS during vehicle registration, fee and tax payment, application for permit, application for fitness, grant of permit and fitness, other vehicle related services like renewal of registration, transfer of ownership, issue and payment of e-challan, pollution check.
The STA is planning to send SMS to the vehicle owners to pay tax against whom tax is pending, to apply for permit before end of validity, before end of validity of fitness. STA will also send SM reminders to renew the registration of vehicles, renew the DL in time.
With new SMS gateway, the STA hops to reach out to the citizens to provide more qualitative service.
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