MONEY
ORDER TRHOUGH SMS - TRAILS COMPLETED AND THE SERVICES ARE EXPECTED TO BE
LAUNCHED SOON -- NEWS
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.
©Cyber Media News
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