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E-money order on the cards

Rashidul Hasan
Bangladesh Post Office is going to introduce postal cash card (e-money order) system through which people, across the country even in the remotest areas, will be able to send and receive money through mobile phone.
The e-money order will be introduced within the next year. As a pilot project it will be launched in Comilla in January.
Hasanul Haq Inu, chairman of parliamentary standing com mittee on post and telecommunication ministry yesterday revealed this to reporters after a meeting of the committee at the parliament building complex.
The committee also said the government would very soon introduce some other modern schemes including e-elcctronic centre and postal address data of post office.
As per the suggestion of the parliamentary body Post Office (amendment) Bill 2009 will be placed in parliament soon.
The committee yesterday finalised scrutiny of the bill recommending two significant amendments to two sections of the
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Post Office Act-1898 which will bring courier service system under legal frame once the bill is passed in parliament.
The amendment to the bill will also give fresh blood to post office which has almost come to a stand still in absence of innovative activities and schemes.
"We want to make postal services modem and up-to-date through amending the Post Office Act enacted about 111 years back," Inu, also a Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) leader, said.
About introducing postal cash card, Inu said, anybody could send and receive cash wi thin a very short time through mobile phone. He said that there are 8,500 post offices across the country and people will be able to gel e-money order services from there.
"All post masters will be provided with special SIM cards. The sender will text a short message service (sms) from his mobile phone to the person he/she wants to deliver the money. The same SMS will be sent to the postman concerned. The postman will check out the specific pin code of the receiver before the money is delivered, President of JSD explained.
He also said that post office authorities have taken some other initiatives including postal life insurance, e-commerce and e-banking to provide better services to people.