The city residents would now be able to pay their electricity and water bills through debit and credit cards of any bank at all e-sampark centres, gram sampark centres and kiosks without paying any extra cost on any transaction. Vijay Kumar Dev, Adviser to UT Administrator, on Tuesday inaugurated the facility of making payment of utility bill through debit/credit cards from e-Sampark Centre, Sector-7 here.
“Providing hassle-free and time bound services to the citizens are the priority of administration and public services should be user friendly so that every citizen can easily access them,” said Dev. He added it will enable administration to deliver public services in much more convenient, citizen oriented, cost effective and better way without paying any extra penny. Dev also asked Department of IT to introduce the online payment of utility bills as well.”
last date for payment of utility bills through debit/credit card will be same as last date of payment through cheque. The Adviser said since the volume of cash transactions is very high at all centers, the feasibility study to cut down on cash transaction was done by SPIC for providing the services of payments at Sampark Centres and as a solution, GPRS EDC Terminals are installed at e- sampark centres and e-sampark kiosks through which all the payments would be accepted through valid credit/debit card of all the banks. There will be one dedicated counter at each e-sampark and gram-sampark centres which will have EDC terminal where citizen can make payment through credit/debit card of any bank.