Postal
department invited Expression of Interest from the Bidders to submit detailed
Project report to Create Post Bank Of India. The last date for submitting the
applications are 24/05/2012 and the bids will be opened on 25/05/2012. In the
tender document it is clearly mentioned the objectives for setting up the Post
Bank Of India are as follows:
(i) Provide banking
which means the accepting, for the purpose of lending or investment, of
deposit of money from the public, repayable on demand or otherwise, and
withdrawal by Cheque, draft, order or otherwise. PBI will be engaged in various
types of banking as mentioned in Section 6 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949.
(ii) Provide
banking services with special focus on rural areas.
(iii) Provide means of
additional revenue generation for the DoP.
(iv) Ride on the Core
Banking Solution which is proposed to be provided in all the post offices.
(v) Provide a
platform for financial inclusion.
(vi) Provide higher
order value added services to over 250 Million existing Post Office Savings
Bank account holders.
MONTHLY SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT EVENTS OF DEPARTMENT OF POSTS FOR MARCH,
2012
Postal
Network to be leveraged to Financially Include BPL Households
Given
below is a brief summary of significant events pertaining to Dept of Posts for
the month March ,2012.
Department
of Posts have disbursed wages amounting to Rs. 540 crores to 5.45 crores
MGNREGS account holders across the country (except in Bihar Circle) during
February this year.
An
MoU was signed with UIDAI for enrolment and dispatch/ delivery of Aadhaar
letters. As per the UIDAI portal, 53.31 lakhs enrolments have been done till 26.03.2012
at post offices. And approx. 9.01 crore Aadhaar letters have been booked till
03.04.2012.
Under
the IT modernization project of the Department approved by the CCEA, 8 RFPs
have been issued for selection of vendors. 5 LOI (Letter of Intent) have been
issued and in 2 RFPs the financial evaluation is in progress.
MoU
signed between Kerala water Authority and Kerala Postal Circle for acceptance
of water charges through Post Offices.
Preliminary
discussions were held with Idea Cellular Pvt. Ltd. for accepting payment for
recharge of pre and post paid connections through e-payment.
Training
for Savottam Certification of officials of five selected Head Post Offices was
arranged by PTC Vadodara .
Project
Arrow initiated to improve the “core activities” of the Department and “Look
and Feel” aspect of post offices has been implemented in 15597 post offices and
1759 post offices, respectively.
The
Department of Posts ( DoP) has decided to leverage its extensive network in
rural as well as in urban areas to financially include BPL households by
opening their savings accounts at their nearest Post Offices. These accounts
will not only serve the purpose of financial inclusion but also constitute
critical infrastructural support to transfer cash benefits to the BPL
households. This will go a long way in reducing their poverty and furthering
the mandate of Government of India and the State Governments. More than 1.2
crore such accounts have already been opened so far across the country. Various
Ministries and Departments of Government of India have been addressed to
consider delivering cash components of their social security and welfare
schemes targeting the BPL households through these accounts.
Stamps
were issued on Vasant Dada Patil ( 1st March), Shyama Charan Shukla (9th March)
and 100 years of Civil Aviation (14th March).
BK/AT
(Release ID :82999)
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