Orissa Motor
Vehicles Department is situated at Cuttack, Orissa. The Transport
Commissioner cum Chairman is the head of the State Transport Authority,
Orissa, ensures appropriate implementation of provision of MV Act and
Rules made there under; collection of MV revenue and regulation of
passenger and goods transport by road for delivering an efficient,
convenient and safe transport system to the mobile population of the
State. All the RTOs, Border Check gates, Dy Commissiner’s
offices and Driving
Training School are
under the administrative control of Transport Commissioner.
With about 15lakhs
registered vehicles and annual generation of Rs 280 crore (2003-04)
revenue for the State exchequer, the administrative machinery of
the road transport department of the State of Orissa functions in a
multidisciplinary approach. There are 26 RTO’s distributed
geographically in the state of Orissa keeping the public convenience in
mind and vehicle population within the region.
There are also
three Range offices viz. Central
Range, Southern Range and Northern Range
located at Cuttack,
Berhampur and Sambalpur respectively headed by
Deputy Commissioner, Transport.
