New Delhi/Mumbai. According to another good news of the morning, now soon people will get the facility of getting PAN card made at the railway station. Not only this, apart from the PAN card, you will be able to recharge your phone, pay electricity bills, fill Aadhaar applications and even file taxes from there. Now for this Railtel is installing Common Service Center (CSC) kiosks at 200 railway stations in India. The name of this kiosk will be ‘RailWire Saathi Kiosks’ and let us tell you that ‘Railwire’ is the brand name of RailTel’s retail broadband service.
Kiosks will be updated like this
Actually it is being launched soon in collaboration with CSC e-Governance Services India Limited (CSC-SPV) and Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. At the same time, most of the kiosks will be operated by entrepreneurs from rural areas. The services offered at these CSCs will include travel tickets (train, air, bus, etc.), Aadhar card, voter card, mobile recharge, electricity bill payment, PAN card, income tax, banking, insurance and many more.
Pilot project launched in Varanasi-Prayagraj
It is worth mentioning that at present, this kiosk has been started as a pilot project at Varanasi and Prayagraj stations. Further, similar kiosks will be installed at about 200 railway stations in phase wise manner. At the same time, most of the kiosks will be in rural areas. Of these, 44 will be in South Central Railway zone, 20 in North Frontier Railway, 13 in East Central Railway, 15 in Western Railway, 25 in Northern Railway, 12 in West Central Railway, 13 in East Coast Railway and 56 in North Eastern Railway.
RailTel ‘Wi-Fi’ available at 6,090 stations today
RailTel has also built one of the world’s largest integrated Wi-Fi networks, with public Wi-Fi (under the brand name ‘RailWire’) available at 6,090 stations today. Of these, 5,000 are in rural areas alone. According to the company, RailTel, in collaboration with CSC, now wants to bring internet services to rural areas by using the existing infrastructure at stations. So soon all the facilities will be available at the railway station.