Friday, July 15, 2011

BSNL promotional offer for GSM based Fixed Wireless Phone instrument.

BSNL Chennai Telephones is offering reduction in price for GSM based FWP instruments and free talk time upto 30.09.2011.

The promotional offer is from 09.07.2011 to 30.09.2011

Sale Price of GSM FWP instrument is Rs.1450/- incl. of all taxes and SIM Card is given FREE for General Plan with validity of one year.

Customer has to purchase First Recharge Coupon as per their requirement. First Recharge Coupon available for this scheme are 42, 48 and 111.

During the promotional offer, free talk time of Rs.150/-per month is given for 12 months. This is applicable only for ON-NET –Local & STD calls and is not applicable on roaming. The talk value of Rs.150/ month will not be carried over to next month.

Saturday, July 9, 2011

e-services for RTO offices - Chennai & Tamilnadu

With the introduction of e-services in RTO offices, citizens can now book appointments with RTO offices, register their grievances and also know its status, information such as tax rates of vehicles, contact details, starting number of vehicles, etc.

Application can be submitted online for learners license and appointments can be booked for Driving license.

New proposals are in pipeline

1) for filling the forms online and also make payment though electronic gateway;
2) declare age and medical fitness and take the online test
3) later go to RTO office with original certificates to support age, address proof and medical fitness.
4) take the driving test if certificates are in order and get the new license.

This system if implemented fully will do away with lining up at RTO offices, save time and energy for prospective applicants as also reduce stress on the employees of RTO offices. This will also eliminate brokers and corruption to a certain extent.

Visit the link to know more.

Visit this link for details in Tamil language.

Monday, July 4, 2011

BSNL Chennai Telephones introduces a new 2G prepaid plan “NESAM STUDENT” for the student community

Rs.20 for UNIFIED NESAM STUDENT SIM with 0 Talk Value & Validity for 7 days (SIM is given free up to 31.07.2011)

Rs.29/- for First Recharge Coupen through C Top-up only with Initial Free Talk Value of 50 Min. To Any NW which has to be used within first 30 days

1200 Local SMS allowed initially and should be used within first 30 days

Validity for Lifetime (Minimum Topup of Rs.200/- for every 6 months) or Topup of Rs20/- & above also extends validity proportionately

Local/STD call charges are 1 ps/sec to BSNL and 1.2 ps / sec to other networks.

2200 Free SMS from second month by deducting Rs.23/- from balance within first 3 consecutive days of calendar month. If no balance is available, only 200 free SMS will be given. Beyond free limit local SMS is chargeable at 50ps/ SMS.

Friends and Family allowed for any 5 nos. of any network in Chennai & Tamilnadu) for which 10 ps/min will be charged on BSNL network and 30 ps/min for other networks.

Change of FFE numbers are allowed anytime with Rs.5/- per change per number

All other charges are as per general pre-paid plan

Data usage of 50 MB free

Visit the link to know more.

Sunday, July 3, 2011

Release of Southern Railway Time Table 2011

The Southern Railway Time Table for 2011 and the Suburban Time Table of Chennai Division was released by the General Manager, Southern Railway on 30.6.2011.

Announcements for introduction of 19 new express trains/ mail trains, 3 pairs of passenger services, 2 pairs of MEMU services and 5 suburban services in 2011-12 were made.

Out of the 19 new trains, two non-stop AC Duronto Services, one from Chennai Central to Madurai (Bi-weekly) and the second from Chennai Central to Thiruvananthapuram (Bi-weekly) have been proposed. 4 train services are expected to be extended and the frequency of five services will be increased.

Visit the link to know more.