<span style="color: #222222;">Odisha yesterday launched various citizen-centric on-line services of the State Transport department. On the occasion, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said that the digital initiative will allow freedom to the vehicle owners to choose any transport office of the state for vehicle related services. AIR correspondent reports that with the state road transport offices going paperless and contactless, long queues in front of the transport offices across the state will soon be a thing of the past-said the chief minister while rolling out the services.<br />''<br />''While the chief minister described the initiative as a kind of liberation for thousands of people, an official release to this effect says that Odisha is the first state in the country to introduce document upload through digital signature, using the NIC platform. The state rolled out as many as nine on line services that include vehicle registration and ownership transfer. </span><br />