India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) is a Government of India owned payments bank operating under the Department of Posts, Ministry of Communication, which aims to utilize all of India's 155,015 post offices as access points and 300,000 postal service workers to provide house to house banking services.The first phase of the bank with 650 branches and 3250 post offices as access points was inaugurated on 1 September 2018. Over ten thousand postmen have been roped into the first phase.
On 19 August 2015 India Post got licence to run a payments bank from Reserve Bank of India. On 17 August 2016 it was registered as a public limited government company for setting up a payments bank. The pilot project of IPPB was inaugurated on 30 January 2017 at Raipur and Ranchi.The first phase nationwide inauguration happened on September 1, 2018. In August 2018 the Union Cabinet approved a cost of ₹1435 crore (~ $200 million) for setting up the bank.
India Post Payments Banks offers savings accounts, money transfer, loans and insurances through third parties, bill and utility payments.
- Account: The bank offers savings and current accounts up to a balance of Rs 1 Lac.
- QR Card: Customers can use QR code payments eliminating the need to remember account numbers, PINs and passwords.
- Unified Payments Interface
- Immediate Payment Service
- National Electronic Funds Transfer
- Real-time gross settlement
- Bharat BillPay
- Direct Benefit Transfer
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India_Post_Payments_Bank
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