Pay your water bill online Uttaranchal

Uttarakhand Jal Sansthan has started online service for the payment of Electricity Bills.
Currently (as of March 12, 2014) only the residents of following three districts can avail this facility:

Dehradun, Haridwar and Pauri Districs Only

Also, only those who hold a Master Card or a Visa can can avail the service at present.

The payments can be made at following portal:

http://ujsbill.uk.gov.in/

For further steps, please follow the instructions given on the website.

If yours is a new connection and you wish to check the connection status, please use the following link: http://ujsbill.uk.gov.in/Online_Payment/Form_status.aspx

Uttaranchal Transport Corporation Online Bus Booking

Now many people know this but tickets for several long route buses of Uttarakhand Transport Corporation can now be booked in advance online. The facility can be availed at following link:

http://www.utconline.uk.gov.in/

One important catch is that you necessarily need to be a registered user for availing this facility.

Many users directly start searching for the buses and than keep wondering why there is no link for making the reservation.

The catch is that the link for payment and advance reservation is shown only when you are logged in as a registered user.

Wanna know your EPF balance? Now a few clicks away ...

Always wanted to know about your Employee Provident Fund (EPF) balance but didn't know where to check. Well as many other tasks listed on this blog, this information also is easily available on the internet. All you need to do is follow a few simple steps as below:

1. Click on the following link to know the balance in your EPF A/c up to the date:

http://epfoservices.in/epfo/member_balance/member_balance_office_select.php

2. Select your PF Office state from the drop down list e.g. If your office is in Karnataka please select Karnataka from the list

3. Select your EPO Office from the displayed options e.g. for Bangalore City you will Click on "BNG - Bangalore option"

4.  On following the above steps you will be taken to Member Balance Information Page as below:

Establishment code is part of your PF A/c number and it is a 5 digit code.  

e.g. If your PF Account number as per your payslip is KN/49878/997 then establishment code of your PF account is 49878. The establishment code is to be filled in third box i.e. the one after BNG in above picture. Here 997 is the account number which is to be filled in last box in first row. the middle row is to be filled with "EPFO  Extension - Maximum 3 Characters / Can be left blank in case no extension".

The mobile number is of 10 digits. Once you submit the information correctly and successfully the balance information is sent to you via SMS on the mobile number filled in the above form.

For more details refer http://www.epfindia.com/.

Online Money Transfer to PPF Account for Tax Saving

There is a good news for the consumers who don't like to visit their bank branches for small small things like money transfers and similar other services.

Until recently money transfers to PPF Accounts could only be done by physically visiting the bank branch and manually depositing the money at the cash counter. However, following banks have now opened up online money transfer service to PPF accounts: SBI, ICICI Bank and IDBI Bank

Hence, if you own a PPF account with any of SBI, ICICI Bank and IDBI Bank you can deposit money using internet banking service from any of your savings bank account. 

The service is not available, however, in case you have opened up your PPF account in Post Office. 

The procedure of transfer is simple. You can add your PPF account details as a beneficiary by mentioning the account type as 'Savings Account'. Once active, you can easily transfer money using NEFT service.

For claiming the tax you can take a printout of online transaction or else provide the bank statement of the PPF Account as a proof. However, the same may vary from company to company.