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MODERNISATION AND DIVERSIFICATION OF POST OFFICES
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The
Department of Posts has decided to improve Look and Feel of its post offices
through Project Arrow. The project has been launched by modernizing
departmental post offices across the country in a phased manner with an aim
to make visible, tangible and noteworthy differences in post office
operations that matter to ‘Aam Aadmi’. It aims at comprehensive
improvement of the core operations of the post office as well as the ambience
in which postal transactions are undertaken.
The number of post offices covered
for modernization under ‘Look & Feel’ component of ‘Project Arrow’ during
the last three
years is as follows:
2009-10 - 500 post offices covered
2010-11 - 530 post offices covered
2011-12 - 206 post offices covered
The
Department is diversifying activities in post Office to earn additional
revenue which is an on-going process. The IT Platform set up under the IT
project will support new products and services. It had diversified its
activities to utilize its vast network to sell products and services for
other organizations like:
1. Booking of Railway reserved
tickets.
2. UID enrolment/Delivery of
AADHAAR cards.
3. Selling of passport forms in
identified post offices.
4. Accepting of utility bills in
identified post offices.
5. Disbursement of wages to
MGNREGA beneficiaries through Post Office Savings
bank
6. Collection of Rural Price
Index Data – the data so collected are electronically
ransmitted to
Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation.
7. Payment of old age pension
paid by State Government through Post Office Savings
Account and
through Money Orders.
8. Sale of gold Coins.
9. Provision of New Pension
Scheme through Post Officers, etc.
This information was given by Dr
(Smt.) Killi Kruparani, Minister of State for C&IT in written
reply to a question in Rajya Sabha today.
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MV/RK
(PIB)
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