The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has assigned a short code for Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) for the welfare of the disabled and seniors living in Telangana. The short code ‘155326’ can be used by the disabled and seniors to get immediate help. All access providers in the state have been instructed to provide mandatory support for this shortcode. But the accessibility of the short code is only for users who are within the limits of Telangana. It is a meter service where the calling party pays.
This short code of the helpline can be very useful and easy to remember for the elderly and people with disabilities.
DoT assigns short code to shipping department
The telecom department assigned a short code to the shipping department. A short code ‘149’ has been assigned by the DoT for investigation by the Public Road Transport Company of all states/UTs/. The government of Andhra Pradesh had requested DoT to allocate a toll-free number to the transportation department, after which DoT has said that the short code ‘149’ can be used for research on public road transport companies of all states and union areas in India.
