DHAKA, Oct 10, 2023 (BSS) - Rural people can now easily pay postpaid bills of
Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board (BREB) through Nagad app.

To this end, the country's one of the leading mobile financial service
providers inked an agreement with the BREB at a city hotel yesterday.
 
BREB chairman Md. Selim Uddin, BREB member (finance) Dipankar Biswas,
Directorate General (Additional Responsibilities) of Directorate of Posts
Tarun Kanti Sikder, and founder and managing director of Nagad Ltd. Tanvir A
Mishuk were present at the signing ceremony.
 
Top officials of both organisations also attended the event.

BREB Secretary Hasina Begum and Nagad's Executive Director Md Shafayet Alam
signed the agreement on behalf of their respective sides at the event, said a
press release here today.

The speakers at the signing ceremony expressed the hope that this opportunity
to pay rural electricity bills through Nagad, an arm of Bangladesh Post
Office, will ensure digital transactions of marginalised people while
ensuring their involvement in financial activities without any hassle.
 
Nagad was the first in the country to introduce charge-free bill payments.
Later, almost all other operators had to follow it to stay competitive. As
part of its continuous customer-centric initiatives, Nagad has now come up
with the easy bill payment service for BREB subscribers.

Every customer can avail of this facility through Nagad app. For that, he or
she needs to tap "Bill Pay" in the app, select the "Electricity" option, and
choose "REB Post Paid" from the biller list.

The customers will not be charged for the first four bills paid under this
system.

Currently, postpaid bills of 18 Palli Bidyut Samity under the BREB can be
paid using Nagad app. They are Gazipur Palli Bidyut Samity-1, Dhaka Palli
Bidyut Samity-1,3, 4, Sylhet Palli Bidyut Samity-1,2, Tangail Palli Bidyut
Samity, Mymensingh Palli Bidyut Samity-1, Barishal Palli Bidyut Samity-2,
Jhenaidah Palli Bidyut Samity, Faridpur Palli Bidyut Samity, Brahmanbaria
Palli Bidyut Samity, Cox's Bazar Palli Bidyut Samity, Narayanganj Palli
Bidyut Samity-1, Bhola Palli Bidyut Samity, Sunamganj Palli Bidyut Samity,
Jashore Palli Bidyut Samity-1 and Rajshahi Palli Bidyut Samity. Nagad will
soon bring all other Samity under this service.
After signing this agreement with Nagad, BREB Chairman Md. Selim Uddin said,
"Around 80 percent of Bangladesh's electricity consumers are under the BREB,
and Nagad has eight crore customers. I believe that if these two largest
customer-friendly organisations in the country walk together, a new horizon
will open up. I hope that all Palli Bidyut Samity will soon come under this
Nagad service."

Directorate General (Additional Responsibilities) of Directorate of Posts
Tarun Kanti Sikder, "Bangladesh Postal Department is becoming more digital
day by day. Nagad is a prime example of that...Today's agreement will bring
more services to the doorsteps of marginal people."

Founder and Managing Director of Nagad Limited Tanvir A Mishuk said:
"Bangladesh's digital transformation has been possible due to rural
electricity reaching all over the country. Nagad is also working on that
digital transformation. We want the two institutions working with
marginalised communities to move forward hand in hand."