Nagad has come up with a special offer that enables aspiring students of Class XI to pay their admission fees charge-free.
The aspiring students would be to pay the fees using its app or USSD *167#, thus easing their college admission process as well as giving them extra benefits.
Nagad customers will get an instant cashback of Taka 2.50 after paying the application fee amounting to Taka 150, said a press release on Wednesday.
For the payment of fees using Nagad's app, a student needs to go to "Bill Pay", tap XI Class Admission 2023, and enter roll number, contact number, board name, and passing year.
Then they will press the NEXT button and enter the amount. In the next step, they will type the PIN number and tap again. Once the payment is successfully completed, users will receive a confirmation notification.
On the other hand, to pay the fees using the USSD, a customer will dial *167# and a menu will appear on the screen from where they will select "Bill Pay" by pressing the menu number 5.
In the third step, another new menu will pop up and users have to go to the "Other" option by pressing the menu number 12 and then will select 1.
After that, they will type 1300 as the biller account number. In the following steps, students need to enter roll number, board, mobile number, and passing year. In the final step, they will type PIN number and will get a payment conformation SMS.
A Nagad customer will be eligible to get cashback only for paying the application fee of Class XI admission through the "Bill Pay" option on Nagad app or USSD.
The "Class XI Admission" payment campaign, which started on August 10 this year, will continue till September 31. A Nagad user will enjoy the cashback once during the entire campaign. Besides, a customer must have an active and full-profile Nagad account to avail this offer.
Md Shihab Uddin Chowdhury, chief commercial officer of Nagad, said: "Nagad always works to make financial transactions convenient and affordable. We've now introduced an option for students to pay their college admission fees free of charge using Nagad's platform to facilitate their admission process."
In this way, students will get relief from hassles they would face while paying the fees in person. Besides, they will get accustomed to digital payments, he added.
"We believe that we will make digital payments easier, the more people will embrace it," he noted.
