PWD to soon launch online portal for water bills in Puducherry
The Hindu
Puducherry PWD launching online portal for easy water bill payments, tied up with banks, no transaction charges.
The Public Works Department (PWD) in Puducherry will soon be launching an online portal to make payment of water tariff and sewerage charges easier.
The proposed portal will be in addition to the Unified Payment Interface (UPI) system for online payment of water bills in the city and its peripheral areas. The UPI facility is expected to be rolled out shortly.
The e-payment facility will be launched through the Bharat Bill Payment System (BBPS) of the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI). The PWD has tied up with HDFC Bank and Indian Overseas Bank for the collection of water tariff from consumers in the city.
The e-payment facility will provide easy access for consumers to make payments for water tariff without any hassles and at zero transaction charges, besides improving the revenue collection of the department. Payments can be made through online banking, debit or credit cards, UPI payments, digital payment applications, and others.
According to an official, “This facility will be in addition to the online payment mode with which consumers make payments through the SBI Collect. Residents have to open the website, onlinesbi.sbi, and click on the link EE Public Health Division, Puducherry. This will take them to the multi-modal payment portal of the bank.”
More details on the payment method are available on the website.
The official added, “The Public Health Division of the PWD has over 1,07,000 water connections in the Puducherry region alone. The data relating to these water connections/consumers have been managed by a software developed in-house about 20 years ago. This software is incompatible with cashless and online transactions.”
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