The Department of Transport, Government of Jharkhand began facility of Road Tax payment through ICICI bank branches across the state from Monday. As many as 45 branches in Jharkhand will have the facility to accept Road tax payment by cash irrespective of the fact that taxpayer was holding an account with the bank or not.
Senior officials of the transport department including Secretary KK Soan apprised Chief Secretary Sudhir Prasad of the details of the facility in a high-level meeting at the CS office on Monday.
The department officials informed the CS that the facility of payment of Road Tax has been extended to ICICI bank branches apart from net banking. It was stated that information regarding inconvenience to auto, buses and small vehicle owners in paying road tax through net banking had come and thus the facility has been extended to ICICI bank branches.
Commercial vehicle owners can also pay their road tax through the facility. As many as 45 bank branches of the ICICI bank have been selected across the state for the purpose. Under the service a vehicle owner can pay the road tax at designated ICICI bank branches by cash even if the owner does not hold an account with the bank.
It was also stated that for availing the service a tax payer can deposit the dully filled payment slip in any ICICI bank counter. The deposited amount will be credited to Transport Commissioner, Jharkhand’s account. The bank will give the taxpayer a receipt with signature and seal, which can be used by the taxpayer for further usage.
It was also deliberated that the taxpayer can also get the tax token from department’s website https://vahan.jhr.nic.in/jh.
Secretary of transport department KK Soan, Principal Secretary IT department NN Sinha, Principal Secretary Health BK Tripathi, ICICI Bank Zonal head Ashok Sharma along with other senior officials were present in the meeting.