Soon, Indian Railways passengers will be able to pay electricity bills, recharge their mobiles, fill up Aadhaar and PAN card forms as well as file taxes with help from Common Service Centre (CSC) kiosks in 200 stations across the country. These CSC kiosks are to be set up by the PSU- RailTel. The scheme has been introduced in partnership with CSC e-Governance Services India and Electronics & Information Technology Ministry. The CSC kiosks at railway stations will be run by village level entrepreneurs (VLEs), according to a PTI report. CSC-offered services include booking of travelling tickets (train, bus, air, etc.), Voter Card, Aadhar Card, PAN card, Income tax, mobile recharge, payment of electricity bill, insurance, banking and many more.<\/p>\n
The CSC kiosks at railway stations have been named \u2018RailWire Saathi Kiosks\u2019 as RailWire is RailTel retail broadband\u2019s brand name. To start with, these kiosks have been made operational at the Varanasi City and Prayagraj City railway stations in Uttar Pradesh on a pilot basis. Similar CSC kiosks will be set up at around 200 railway stations in phases, mostly in rural areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Soon, Indian Railways passengers will be able to pay electricity bills, recharge their mobiles, fill up Aadhaar and PAN card forms as well as file taxes with help from Common Service Centre (CSC) kiosks in 200 stations across the country. These CSC kiosks are to be set up by the PSU- RailTel. The scheme has been introduced in partnership with CSC e-Governance Services India and Electronics & Information Technology Ministry. The CSC kiosks at railway stations will be run by village level entrepreneurs (VLEs), according to a PTI report. CSC-offered services include booking of travelling tickets (train, bus, air, etc.), […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,264,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}