RailTel kiosks to soon offer mobile recharge, bill payment & more

TIL Desk/Business/New Delhi/ Passengers in 200 railway stations across India will soon be able to recharge their mobiles, pay electricity bills, fill up Aadhaar and Pan card forms and even file taxes with help from Common Service Centre (CSC) kiosks to be set up by RailTel. The scheme has been operationalised in partnership with CSC e-Governance Services India Limited’ (CSC-SPV) and the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, RailTel said in a statement.

The kiosks will be run by village level entrepreneurs (VLEs).”The services offered by CSC include booking of the travelling tickets (train, air, bus etc.), Aadhar card, voter card, mobile recharge, electricity bill payment, Pan card, Income Tax, banking, insurance and many more,” the statement said. The kiosks have been named ‘RailWire Saathi Kiosks’ — RailWire is the brand name of RailTel’s retail broadband service.

To begin with, the RailWire Saathi CSC kiosks at the Varanasi City and Prayagraj City stations in Uttar Pradesh have been made operational on a pilot basis. Similar kiosks will be operationalised at around 200 railway stations, mostly in rural areas, in phases, the statement said.