PATNA: Buoyed by the success of the pilot project of mobile money order service, launched about two months back, the postal department is set to launch this service in 2300 post offices across the state on August 16 and a total of 3,000 post offices by October.
This was stated by Brigadier G Bhuyan, state chief postmaster general, Bihar, while addressing a press conference here on Wednesday.
Since the launch of the pilot project in four states of the country, Bihar has received and sent the highest number of money orders. After the success of pilot project in Bihar, Haryana, Kerala and Delhi, the service would be made functional in five more states - Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Jharkhand - from August 16.
"In Bihar, the pilot project was initially launched in 18 post offices only. After a month, it was introduced in 123 more post offices and another 105 post offices after three more weeks. Since the launch of this service, we have completed over 1,000 mobile money order transactions, sending over Rs 11 lakh and receiving more than Rs 18 lakh," said Brigadier Bhuyan.