Andrew Bonwick
Vice President of Product Development at Relm Insurance
Madhav Sheth
CEO of Ai+ Smartphone
Varun Kashyap & Sridevi Reddy
Co-Founders, Zithara.ai
Transforming Indian Offline Retail and Customer Engagement Using AI


To comply with the TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) rules on offering at least one prepaid plan with a complete month validity, the telcos brought in multiple plans around early 2022. Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, Vi (Vodafone Idea), and BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited) all offer at least or more prepaid plans with one month of validity now. But right now, we will just be looking at prepaid plans with 30 days of validity.
Reliance Jio Rs 259 Prepaid Plan
The Rs 259 prepaid plan is a one-month validity plan. It means that if you are using this prepaid plan, then your date of recharging with this plan would be the same for every month. For example, if you recharge with this plan on June 5, then the next recharge for you would come on July 5, August 5 and so on. Irrespective of whether a month has 30 or 31 days, the date of recharge would be the same for users. This Rs 259 plan offers 1.5GB of daily data along with unlimited voice calling and 100 SMS/day.
Then you can also go for the Rs 296 prepaid plan, which comes with a validity of 30 days. It offers users 25GB of lump-sum data along with unlimited voice calling and 100 SMS/day. Both these plans offer users a free subscription to Jio apps, including JioCinema, JioTV, JioCloud, and JioSecurity.
Bharti Airtel Rs 319 Prepaid Plan
Bharti Airtel’s Rs 319 prepaid plan is also a monthly validity plan. This plan ships with 2GB of daily data, 100 SMS/day, and unlimited voice calling. There are, of course, Airtel Thanks benefits included, such as Wynk Music, Apollo 24 | 7 Circle, and more.
Airtel also offers an identical Rs 296 prepaid plan as Jio. With Airtel’s Rs 296 plan, users get 25GB of lump-sum data along with 100 SMS/day and unlimited voice calling. This plan carries a total validity of 30 days.