Kathmandu. The government, which aims to make government services digital and citizen-friendly, has made arrangements to provide Nepal Telecommunication Company (Nepal Telecom) SIM cards to the citizens at any place they want. Minister for Information and Communications Dr. Bikram Timilsina inaugurated the ‘Postal SIM Service’ from the Ministry today. With the operation of this service, the citizens will not have to visit the telecommunications office to get the SIM card of the telecom.

Under this service, customers will be able to apply online and get their new prepaid ‘physical’ SIM card at the doorstep through the post. The customer will be able to get the required information. Addiction. Love. You have to log in and click on the ‘Postal SIM Portal’ and provide the required details.

Citizens will have to submit the application online by selecting the nearest telecom counter along with the personal details and the nearest address (landmark), photo and citizenship÷passport photo. After the telecom verifies the documents and approves the application, the payment can be made online.

A fee of Rs 90 will be charged for SIM and Rs 70 for postal delivery. This amount can be paid through any banking app or digital wallet or Namaste Pay. After this, the SIM will be sent from the nearest post office of the service recipient. Arrangements have also been made to track where the SIM reached. The postal staff will deliver the SIM to the home of the service recipient.

SIM card in the ministry in half an hour

With the inauguration of the postal SIM service, Minister Dr. Timilsina submitted an online application for a new SIM card. Minister Timilsina has made the payment online after the personal details were ‘verified’ from the Telecom’s office in Sundhara.

Immediately after the successful payment, Nepal Telecom provided the ‘physical’ SIM card to the Ministry of Information and Communications through postal service. Postal Service employee Puskar Basnet had delivered the SIM card to the ‘place’ given by Minister Timilsina. Minister Timilsina was jointly handed over the SIM card to Minister Dr. Timilsina by the Managing Director of Nepal Telecom, Sangita Pahadi and Director General of the Department of Postal Services Manmaya Bhattarai Pangeni. The SIM card reached the designated ‘place’ in about half an hour of Minister Dr. Timilsina’s application.

The target is to provide SIM cards to applicants in two hours after acceptance and payment of online applications in urban areas and three days in rural areas.

Instructions to shorten the service ‘delivery’

On the occasion, Minister Dr. Timilsina directed to shorten the delivery time of postal-SIM service. “Try to deliver the SIM card to the hands of the citizens before it is expressed in the delivery. “, he said.

He said efforts were underway to make the government services digital and citizen-friendly, saying the government services including SIM cards would be saved if the citizens could reach the place they wanted.

Post Office to be developed as a Government Courier Service

Referring to the government’s commitment to strengthen the postal service and forward it as a modern government courier service, Minister Dr. Timilsina said that this SIM delivery service is an important step in that commitment. He urged to make postpaid SIM cards and other administrative services of Nepal Telecom online-based in the coming days.

Communications Secretary Rajendra Kumar Poudel has said that the postal-SIM service is a new departure in the existing system of selling and distributing SIM cards of Telecom. “This is the beginning and both sides should pay attention to its sustainability. “Halkara should also be given necessary training and orientation,” he said. ’

Managing Director of Nepal Telecom, Pahadi said that arrangements have been made to deliver physical SIM cards to the places demanded by the citizens from today. Director General of the Department of Postal Services Bhattarai said that the government has fulfilled the desire of the citizens of cities and remote areas to get SIM cards easily.