Departments can use SMS Push / Mobile Terminated, to send the SMS notifications to the citizens. Following is the integration process.
The department needs to first create the account on the SMS Gateway. Following fields are required for account creation:
Please send these details to msdp(at)cdac(dot)in. We initially credit only 5 SMS. After signing the Agreement (Download)(Size:90KB) and Declaration form (Download)(Size:22KB), we provide the required number of credits.
These are the following two ways to use the SMS Gateway service.
The department's user can login with the credentials which is provided when the account for the department is created.
The user can then do the following on this portal.
The department's application can send SMSs using the HTTP interface of SMS Gateway provided by MSDG.
HTTP API lets departments send across SMS messages using HTTP URL interface. The API supports SMS push (Single SMS and Bulk SMS).
Sender ID: Sender ID or CLI (Caller Line Identification) is limited to 8 characters in the API. According to TRAI regulations, there will be a 2 character prefix when delivered to the phone. For example, if you are passing the Sender ID as "cdac_mum", you will see the SMS delivered as AD-cdac_mum or TA-cdac_mum according to the route SMS Gateway chooses.
Message Length: For standard character set, 160 characters per SMS is supported. If a message is sent whose length is longer than the permitted character limit, it will be broken into multiple messages. You can submit up to 480 characters in one API request.
The end point of the service is https://msdgweb.mgov.gov.in/esms/sendsmsrequest. This Service is only available on HTTP POST.
| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
| UserName | Specify the username provided |
| Password | Password attached to the username |
| Message | The SMS Text you want to submit |
| numbers | The set of mobile numbers to broadcast the above SMS content. You can pass 10 or 12 digit mobile numbers in comma separated format. Eg : 9895123456,9847123456,919809123456 |
| senderid | The Sender ID for this SMS. 6 characters for SMS as per new TRAI regulations. Also note senderid is not the email-id. |
| Key | Optional |
| messages | This is for using sendpairedsms method in webservice Test Message 91xxxxxxxxxx |
| hashValue | Hash value generated from username, senderid, message and securekey. |
| Response Code | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 401 | Credentials Error, may be invalid username or password |
| 402, X | X messages submitted successfully |
| 403 | Credits not available |
| 404 | Internal Database Error |
| 405 | Internal Networking Error |
| 406 | Invalid or Duplicate numbers |
| 407,408 | Network Error on SMSC |
| 409 | SMSC response timed out, message will be submitted |
| 410 | Internal Limit Exceeded, Contact support |
| 411, 412 | Sender ID not approved. |
| 413 | Suspect Spam, we do not accept these messages. |
| 414 | Rejected by various reasons by the operator such as DND, SPAM etc |
| 415 | Secure Key not available |
| 416 | Hash doesn't match |
| 417 | otpmsg method contains only single number |
| 418 | Daily Limit Exceeded |