How to activate STV recharge from main balance of BSNL prepaid

Last updated on March 24th, 2023 at 05:39 am

During this lockdown, many BSNL customers were facing the problem of recharging or activating Special Tariff Vouchers (STV) on their prepaid mobile phone plans. BSNL customers can activate Vouchers in many ways they can either visit the nearby BSNL Customer Service Centre or Retailer and ask them to activate a particular Voucher by paying the cost of the Special Tariff Vouchers including GST.

BSNL customers can also activate STV recharge from main balance and that too without paying GST. It means you can easily save the GST amount as well as activate the voucher with just a few clicks on your smartphone.

How to activate STV recharge from main balance of BSNL prepaid

To activate STV recharge from main balance, if you remember the code of the voucher, then you may activate Special Tariff Vouchers directly by sending it to 123, otherwise frame an SMS HELP, and send it to 123, in return, you will receive the following message.

1. From the above message, you have many options like checking already activated vouchers on your prepaid phone plan or may get information about various types of recharge by sending SMS STVINFO to 123.
2. To get the details of a particular STV, say, a Data voucher, you have to send SMS STVHLP Data1 to 123 and in return, you will receive information on a few Data vouchers with their codes. If you want to activate the combo plan, you have to send SMS STVHLP COMBO to 123.
3. In return, you will receive, details of a few vouchers which may be activated by the SMS facility. You may select the desired voucher as per your need and frame SMS STVSUB STV_ID and send it to 123.

This way you may activate STV recharge from main balance on your phone but for other Special Tariff Vouchers, either you may activate them online or by visiting a nearby retailer or BSNL CSC or through My BSNL App.