Easy Bill ties up with BSES for bill collection

Company press release, January 7, 2004

New Delhi

Easy Bill, a Hero Group Company, today announced its tie-up with BSES to accept bill payment from their customers in Delhi. This tie-up would make life Easy for 18 lac BSES customers in Delhi, as they would now be able to conveniently pay bills at any of the current 450 Easy Bill neighborhood stores in Delhi; get an instant receipt on payment; and even pay bills during extended hours and weekends.

Mr. Rahul Munjal, CEO, Easy Bill said, "With BSES aligning with us, we are now collecting bills for almost all basic utilities in Delhi. Easy Bill is now truly synonymous with "complete solution one-stop shop" for bill-payment. The vision of Easy Bill is to create a brand, which offers consumer convenience in bill payments and reselling communication services using e-transaction-oriented product. This recent collaboration with a large service provider like BSES has brought very close to this."

According to Mr. Sandeep Vij, Business Head, Easy Bill, "With this tie-up Easy Bill has become the bill collector for all mobile, telephone and electricity bills in the city. With a geographic spread of 450 Easy Bill retailers across the city and major bill issuers aligning with us, we will now be able to cater more efficiently to our customers, fulfilling our promise of consumer convenience in bill payments."

Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Rakesh Aggarwal, CEO, BSES said, At BSES our commitment is towards achieving the best of customer satisfaction and setting high standards. Joining hands with Easy Bill will help us take this further by offering convenience and providing easy payment solutions to our consumers. Easy Bill is another convenient cheque payment option for our customers, which saves a lot of time. We also have drop boxes in and around Delhi for convenient payments of bills. Therefore this initiative from Easy Bill will definitely be welcomed by our consumers."

Easy Bill, with its core focus on making the life of utility consumers easy, has tied-up with mobile and electricity companies and a large number of retailers to provide a unique bill collection service, capable of handling cash transactions, hereto not provided by any third party service providers like banks. They have already tied up with Bill issuers such as NDPL (Tata Power and Delhi Government JV), Hutch, Airtel, IDEA Cellular and Touchtel and Tata Indicom. Residents can conveniently pay bills at any of the current 450 Easy Bill neighborhood stores in Delhi; get an instant receipt on payment; with the ease of paying bills during extended hours and weekends.

The Hero Group, with a combined turnover of Rs. 8, 400 crores, ranks among the top ten Indian business houses in India. Within the Group, Hero Cycles is the largest manufacturer of bicycles in the world and Hero Honda is the largest manufacturer of Motorcycles in the world. The vision of the Group is to continuously strive for synergy between technology, systems and human resources to provide products and services that meet the quality, performance and price aspirations of the customers while maintaining highest standards of ethics and social responsibilities. Easy Bill is another step in the same direction.

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