Online registration of vehicles & payment of taxes

SHILLONG: Meghalaya Transport Minister AT Mondal today launched a website for Online Registration of Vehicles and Payment of Road taxes at the Information Technology Building Conference hall here aimed at making governance closer to the people.

The Online Payment of Transport Fees and Taxes is a system for registration of new vehicles at the dealer's showroom. This service will enable the car dealer to initiate the vehicle registration process by entering all the details and subsequently making online payment of vehicle registration fees and road tax using net-banking facility with the State Bank of India.

The system can be accessed online at meghalalyaonline.gov.in which a link will be provided to a secure portal https://vahan.meg.nic.in of Transport Department.

This pilot project for new registration of private vehicles can be done at the District Transport Office, Shillong and can be used by dealers, motor vehicle inspectors and vehicle owners.

Dedicating the online registration process to the people of the state, Mondal said the portal is a citizen-centric service which aims to facilitate services of the Transport Department. This portal can also be used to access all the details of vehicles and this in turn may deter vehicle theft, he said.

The Minister appealed to all the car dealers in the city to cooperate in providing the required information by using this portal to speed up and improve efficiency in the matter of Registration of new vehicles and payment of road taxes which will helps improve the service delivery to the people of the State.

Meghalaya Chief Secretary W M S Pariat, while appreciating the efforts of the transport department and the NIC in conceptualizing and putting together this IT enable services, said that the online service of the transport department will play a very important role in managing the services of the transport department.

Other officials present were J P Prakash, Principal Secretary Transport Department, S N Marak, Commissioner of Transport, T Dkhar, State Informatics Officer amongst others.