Ministry of External Affairs and the State Bank of India have signed an agreement to provide additional digital payment services to Indian migrant workers, recruiting agents and other users of the eMigrate portal.

Through the implementation of this initiative, payment of various emigration-related fees would be possible with NIL transaction charges for payment through UPI, credit or debit cards and NEFT through net banking of all Indian banks.

The Ministry in a statement today said that this Memorandum of Understanding would further facilitate and enhance the ambit of safe and legal migration of Indian migrant workers. This agreement will be operational soon after successful integration of SBIePay with eMigrate portal.

 

The MoU was signed by Joint Secretary (OE &PGE) Bramha Kumar on behalf of the Ministry and General Manager (NW-I) from theSBI Neelesh Dwivedi in New Delhi.