New Delhi, December 2, 2005

Press Release

BSES launches an online bill payment facility

• Presently online facility available to customers of six leading banks and four credit card companies.
• BRPL and BYPL electricity bill on email

BSES has introduced an online bill payment facility for its 23 lakh customers in Delhi. This unique facility allows the customers to simply log on to the BSES website bsesdelhi.com and pay their electricity bills using their credit cards or through their net banking accounts.

The unique facility allows customers to view bill details of their BSES account and pay their electricity bills from the convenience of their homes and offices

According to Mr Lalit Jalan, Member of the Executive Committee and Director BSES “We are happy that before the end of the calendar year, we have been able to offer our Customers the choice of making online payment. We would like to assure our customers that their online transactions on our website will be totally secure.”

On visiting the BSES website and clicking on the payment option, the customers will be directed to a secure payment gateway, where they will be asked to choose between credit card payment and the net banking option.  Customers choosing the credit card option will be required to enter their credit cards details. Alternatively, customers choosing net banking option will be directed to input their respective bank’s net banking user id and password. This facility is available to all types of customers – key, medium load and domestic.

To ensure, the security of net transactions on the BSES website, payments are being made over an ultra secure, 128 bit SSL encrypted, Veri sign certified, payment gateway. The payment will be authenticated over the gateway and credit card / savings account (if net banking option is selected) will be instantly debited. On making the online payment, customers will immediately receive an online confirmation and a transaction reference number.

All BSES customers holding credit cards issued from Master Card, Visa, Diners Club International, Citibank E Card and Net banking customers of most of the prominent banks including Citibank, HDFC, IDBI, PNB, UTI and SBI will be able to pay their BSES. Coming days will the facility being extended to customers of others banks also.

In keeping pace with the latest advancements in technology, BSES has recently introduced a novel facility of providing bill details on email. All a customer has to do is log on to the BSES website www.bsesdelhi.com on click on “Bill on email” and enter ones CRN number, name and email address. This will ensure that the customer will get their bill details on their email, in accordance to their billing cycle.

A BSES spokesperson said “The online facility is in addition to the existing 835 payments options including 400 Eazy Bill outlets, 33 divisional office cash counters, 200 BSES cash counters, 200 Skypak drop boxes and 2 mobile cash collection vans available to the BSES customers in Delhi”

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