‘One Hyderabad Card’ is on its way
As
per this paper report, the launch of ‘Hyderabad One Card’ was around the corner
with discussions in an advanced stage.
This
article has been published in August 2018 and hence it’s bit of a surprise to
see an RFP for ‘Selection of Service Provider for Design and Implementation of
One Hyderabad Card’ in April 2018.
As
per the news reports, State Bank of India had demonstrated the workings of it’s
card to top government officials
Quote
SBI officials had made a demonstration
of the card functioning at the Government Task Force Committee meeting held at
the TSRTC Bus Bhavan attended by Transport secretary Sunil Sharma, HMR MD
N.V.S. Reddy, RTC Executive Director Purushottam and representatives of auto
unions, Ola and Uber and so on.
Unquote
As
per January 2019 press reports, Telangana Transport department was waiting for
the final report from State Bank of India for making live the One Hyderabad
Card by month end.
Now,
TSTS, on behalf of the ITE&C Department has invited proposals to select
Service Providers for designing and implementing an Smart Card-based ecosystem for
payments related to travel services availed by the residents and visitors in
Hyderabad Metro Rail, Telangana State Road Transport Corporation Buses,
Hyderabad Multi-Modal Transport System, Auto rickshaws, OLA, UBER Cabs and
others within Hyderabad City.
The
objectives of “One Hyderabad Card” is to enable hassle-free travel within the city
avoiding long queues for accessing travel & other public services and to
make available multiple convenient payment options to residents and visitors in
the city.
The card
intended to be a co-branded card is meant for multi-use.
The cards
shall incorporate features for use of cards in the end-user devices through
“Swiping”, through “Contactless” (or “Tapping”) Near Field Communication (NFC)
facility and QR code facility.
The
existing KYC norms of RBI shall apply for issuance of the cards. It is proposed
that for quick adaptation
In the
first phase, the cards will be issued without any KYC (subject to the monetary
limits of no KYC as per RBI) just by taking the Phone number of the buyer.
Multiple
channels for top up of the card including electronic transfer of cash using
Mobile Wallet, Online Portal, etc., shall be made available.
The card
will have minimum value of Rs 50 and the top up can be in 100/200/500/1000/2000.
It may be
noted that Hyderabad Metro Rail already has closed loop card system installed
by Automatic Fare Collectors (AFC) in all Metro Stations.
AFCs are
not installed in TSRTC Buses and in MMTS Stations. Hence deployment of new AFCs
where required and integration with existing & new AFCs is a key
requirement of Common Card Mobility Payments Project.
The Card
will incorporate open standards for data exchange, related to the consumer
usage pattern of the cards, with decision support systems deployed as part of
the ecosystem.
The main challenge
will be in integrating MMTS and TSRTC fare collection system into One Hyderabad
Card ecosystem.
As on
date, the fare collection mechanism in MMTS and TSRTC is purely paper based.
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