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All bills of Gazipur City Corporation to be paid in Nagad
DHAKA, Nov 11, 2020 (BSS) – Payment of various utility bills of
Gazipur City Corporation (GCC) is going to be made in a few seconds
through Nagad, a financial service arm of Bangladesh Postal
Department.
The city dwellers will enjoy this digital payment facility as
Nagad, the fastest growing digital financial service of the country
and GCC has inked an agreement last week in this regard, said a press
release.
As a result of the agreement, within a short time the citizens will
be able to pay their holding tax, rent of various shops run by GCC,
payment of hat-bazaar lease fee, payment of license fees of different
vehicles, payment of tuition fees of schools run by GCC and rent of
bill boards through Nagad. Trade license fees will be added to the
list very shortly.
GCC Mayor Mohammad Jahangir Alam and Executive Director of Nagad
Md. Shafayet Alam signed the agreement on behalf of their respective
organization. Senior officials of both the organizations were present
at that time.
Now the GCC and the second largest mobile financial service of the
country will run the technical integration process and the dwellers
can get the facilities.
On the occasion, Mohammad Jahangir Alam said from now on, the
citizens will be able to easily pay the bills and fees of all the
services of the city corporation digitally through Nagad without any
hassle.
Md Shafayet Alam, executive director of Nagad said that it is
normal for an organization of the government to provide services to
the people through another organization.
Through this agreement, the citizens of GCC will be able to pay
their bills for various services staying at home, he added.
Since its inception, Nagad is facilitating government and
non-government organizations to adopt digital payments facilities so
that citizens can easily get their service without any challenge. As a
result, the government owned digital financial service has so far on
boarded nearly 11,000 payments points. Online shoppers also can pay
their bills through Nagad near about 2,500 e-commerce platforms.
Besides, Nagad users can bring money from debit and credit card to
their Nagad wallet Visa and Mastercard at home.
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