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Bureau
Government of India Ministry of Communications & Information Technology
14-December-2012 17:43 IST
Modernisation and Diversification of Post Offices
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 transmitted 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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