New Delhi, 18 September (IANS). The Department of Posts and Government Telecom Company Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) have signed a memorandum of MoU (MoU), under which the sale and recharge facility of BSNL will be made available at post offices.
The official statement from the government said that the purpose of this MoU is to reduce digital division in urban and rural areas.
According to the government, 1.65 lakh post offices of Indian Posts BSNL will serve as a sales center for prepaid SIM card and top-up services. BSNL will provide SIM stock and training, while the Department of Posts will add new customers to BSNL and facilitate transactions in standardized and safe manner.
The statement said that after the success of the pilot project in Assam, it is being started at the national level.
The objective of this initiative is to make BSNL’s telecom services more accessible and economical for citizens living in remote areas of the country, which often face the problem of limited connectivity.
Manisha Bansal Badal, General Manager of the Department of Posts (Civil Citizen Services and RB), said, “This partnership connects the reliable access to Indian post with telecommunication expertise of BSNL to provide affordable and accessible connectivity to every citizen.”
Both sides will jointly ensure strong monitoring, monthly matching and strict adherence to cyber security and data secrecy standards.
By connecting BSNL’s telecom infrastructure with a nationwide presence of Indian post, this partnership establishes a new criteria in public sector coordination for citizen-focused service distribution.
BSNL has recently established make-in-India, state-of-the-art 4G mobile networks across the country, furthering the attitude of self-reliant India.
Earlier this year, Union Communications Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia credited the strategic revival steps of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi government to bring BSNL back to the verge of failure, saying that the government -run telecom giant was left by the previous government on ‘ventilator support’ by the previous government.
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