Vodafone Essar has rolled out a new product called, ‘Chhota Credit,’ which let its prepaid customers to avail a credit amount of Rs 10 by just sending an SMS to a toll free number 144.

Harit Nagpal, Marketing and New Business Director, Vodafone Essar stated, “Chhota Credit will enable our subscribers to make a call in the event they do not have sufficient balance in their prepaid account and a recharge shop is not close by or open.”

Mr. Nagpal said that prepaid subscribers who have a balance of less than Rs 5 can make use of this service by sending ‘CREDIT’ as an SMS to ‘144’ in order to get Rs 10 credited to their prepaid account.

However, Rs 1 will be deducted as service charge for each transaction. The credit facility available for 7 days will be adjusted against the next recharge.

The scheme will be applicable to those subscribers who have completed more than 3 months on the Vodafone network.