NEW DELHI, INDIA: Here is a 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 (MoU) 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.
Source : http://www.ciol.com
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