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Postal Department confers Meghdoot awards to Postal Employees for their achievements in 2019-20

Highlights

• A memorandum of Understanding was signed by Department of Posts with CSC e-Governance Services India Limited to provide citizen centric service
  
• This will give a flip to setting a common service centres in more than 10000 Post Offices across the country for providing various G2C (Government to Citizen) and B2C (Business to Citizens) services to citizens in rural and remote areas
• Through this agreement, Department of Posts intends to provide a one-stop solution for all e-Governance services on assisted model through its "Common Service Centres(PO-CSCs)" in Post Offices. 
• These "PO-CSCs" will also contribute to ease of living and ease of business to the nearby digitally deprived rural and semi-urban population .

The B2C (Business to Citizens) Services 

It includes Bharat Bill Payment System Bills (Electric, Gas, Water bills etc.).
The services offered also included Third Party Services such as EMI (Equal Monthly Instalment) collections for various loans offered by financial institutions and submission of online application forms for loans. 
Travel services such as Ticket booking service would be available for Flight, Train and Bus Tickets.

Source:  PIB