View and Pay BSNL Telephone Bill

Even though a lot of private players have entered the Telecom sector recently, BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited) is still the largest Land Line service provider in Kerala. BSNL had launched online bill payment long time ago, but still many are unaware of this and resort to payment of bill through post offices or BSNL offices by queuing up. There are multiple online portals of BSNL through which land line bills can be viewed and outstanding amount paid. We will discuss some of them in the below sections and also few other features available for the customers online.

KSRTC Ticket Reservation

The state owned KSRTC (Kerala State Road Transport Corporation) is still the common people's medium of transport in most areas in Kerala. Even though with a lot of limitations, it is trying to bring in technology to its benefit. The online reservation was introduced few years ago, but is yet to gain momentum.

The feature is available only to selected depots and selected service routes currently. Nevertheless, people should atleast make use of the services available.

LPG Gas Cylinder Related

With the introduction of DBT (Direct Benefit Transfer) scheme for transferring LPG subsidy directly to Aadhaar linked bank accounts, Gas agency offices have seen a tremendous increase in their work load. But the fact that most of the services offered by gas agencies at their offices can be done online also is a less known information.

Aadhaar Card Related

Aadhaar (ആധാർ) card issued by UIDAI must be the most sought after identification document by people recently. Although lot of authentic information is available in public domain, it has been accompanied with a lot of false information as well. Here I will explain some of the services related to Aadhaar available online for the public.

Electoral Roll Verification and Registration

As everyone would already be knowing, Election ID card is a very important individual document, the primary purpose of which, is to enable the card holder to caste vote during Elections. It also serves as a valid ID Proof and Address Proof for various official purposes. The process of obtaining a new one or making corrections in an already existing card, was very tedious, involving a lot of visits to Village / Taluk offices in person. All that has now changed, thanks to the online Electoral Roll Verification and Voter Registration facility available in the website of the Chief Electoral Officer, Kerala.

Obtain Birth, Death and Marriage Certificates

This is one of the best e-Governance initiatives of the Govt. of Kerala to digitize the registration information of citizens across the 1000+ of local self government institutions of the state. It covers all the Panchayaths (Gram, Block and District), Municipality and Corporations across the state with Birth, Death and Marriage Certificates. Even though various local self government institutions (തദ്ദേശ സ്വയം ഭരണ സ്ഥാപനങ്ങൾ) are at different levels in their progress of digitization, this still should provide an appreciable amount of help to the common people.

View and Pay Electricity Bill

Most of us would have had faced hardships standing in the long queue in front of electricity offices to pay our bill on time. Not anymore. KSEB has taken the e-route finally. The facility was launched in April 2013 and has already received good response from consumers. There is debit, credit and net banking options to facilitate online payment with only a nominal service charge.

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Hello All,

This blog attempts to familiarize a few important websites and online features which can reduce efforts in our day-to-day activities or transactions. Our state has achieved a lot of improvements recently in the field of e-Governance and most of these should benefit the common man to a large extent. But the sad part is that most of these, go unnoticed or are not given due importance, so that its benefits reach the masses.