MONEY ORDER THROUGH SMS - TRAILS COMPLETED AND THE SERVICES ARE EXPECTED TO BE LAUNCHED SOON.
14 August 2012
Here is
good news for the customers of postal services. Now, the money orders will
become hassle-free and can be disbursed via an SMS. The trials are completed
and the services are expected to be launched soon.
The
state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has developed a customized
application to facilitate money order service to 155,000 post offices across India. BSNL is
the technology enabler and this service will remain operator neutral.
Speaking to
CIOL, BSNL CMD RK Upadhyay said that they are working as per the memorandum of
understanding (Mo U) signed with the Department of Post (DoP). "We are in
the final stages of service rollout" he informed.
The
Government initially chose Bihar and Punjab to
initiate the service since a lot of immigrant workers hail from these states.
India Posts
Secretary, Manjula Prasher had on an earlier occasion told CIOL that mobile
money orders would be a good initiative to help immigrant workers who remit
money to their home states.
The project
will empower designated post offices with mobile devices that have pre-embedded
the application. While transferring, the remittance senders' need to furnish
basic details that includes receivers' mobile number.
The
receiver will get a 16-digit transaction code via SMS from which money can be
claimed from a local post office. The government has planned to allow instant
money order service up to Rs. 50,000.
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