By
Tricitynews
Chandigarh
13th October:- India Post celebrates the National Postal Week
every October, starting with World Post Day which is celebrated every year on 9th
October. The purpose of World Post Day
is to create awareness of the role of postal sector in peoples’ and businesses’
everyday lives and its contribution to the social and economic development of
countries. Today DoP is celebrating “Business
Development Day”.
On this occasion, Anil Kumar, CPMG Punjab & U.T
Chandigarh apprised about the recent transformation of India Post under IT
Modernization Project & stated that post offices in India are taking up new
assignments and challenges to meet the societal requirement, while contributing
to accelerated economic development of the nation. Today, India Post is even
serving as a major player in e-commerce market. He also intimated that all the
departmental post offices of the Circle are under Core Banking Solution&
Core System Integrated Project & rural post offices have been provided
with hand held devices under DARPAN Project to cater
to the needs of the rural and agrarian populace for ensuring better access to
postal and financial services. In rural area, it would be beneficial for
biometric authorization and disbursements.
India Post have been offering special facilities to our corporate and
bulk customers for despatching all kind of services anywhere in the country.
Department has also opened mail corridor in Punjab & U.T Chandigarh
by connecting all the major stations for next day delivery of mail. Air connectivity has also been given to 16
cities of India. Department has also
started the service of International Tracked Packets Service to cater the needs
of the customers sending articles to abroad.
Now India Post has started e-Commerce exports from India and encourage
digitalization of customers and postal documentation. In Punjab one full fledged Foreign Post
Office has been established in Ludhiana to provide speedy custom clearance and
complete other online formalities before despatch of foreign articles to
respective country from Ludhiana itself.
Technological upgradation of all Post Offices has already taken place in
770 departmental post offices as well as 3100 Branch Post Offices of the
Circle. As on date, 503 post offices of the Circle also act as Aadhaar
Enrolment cum updation centres and 5 post offices namely Patiala HO, Bathinda
HO, Pathankot HO, Moga HO and Phagwara HO of the Circle also act as Post Office
Passport Seva Kendras. ATM facilities have also been provided to the customers
of India Post with interoperability with other Banks. As of now 26 ATMs are operational in Punjab
and U.T. Chandigarh. Now, customer can
access their CBS POSB accounts from anywhere in the country.
CPMG also informed that Punjab Postal Circle has set up a total of 22
IPPB branches in Punjab in addition to 1 IPPB branch in U.T Chandigarh covering
3870 post offices on the Circle. So far
26352 IPPB accounts have already opened.
The aspiration for the India Post Payments Bank is to become the most
accessible bank in the world riding on state of the art banking and payments
technology. Coupled with the physical presence across 1.55 lakh post offices
PAN India and the reach of “The Dakiya”, the India Post Payments Bank aims to
become a powerful and effective vehicle of real financial inclusion in the
country.
The Department has been instrumental in providing large variety of
services to its customers through Post Offices viz. Saving Schemes, RPLI, PLI,
Western Union Money Transfer Service, sale of Punjab State Lottery Tickets
(Punjab only). Approximately two crore
revenue is earned every year by sale of lottery tickets. Postal Life Insurance
and Rural Postal Life Insurace has get the momentum in the last years due to
providing online collection of premium and its high bonus low premium
feature. This year We have procured 1667
PLI policies with Sum Assured Rs. 10.27 Crore and 2143 RPLI policies for Sum
assured Rs. 33.25 Crore upto now. Energy
Efficiency appliances i.e, LED Bulbs, LED Tubes & Fans are also distributed
through Post Offices. Railway Tickets
are booked in selected Post Offices.
On this ocassion Chief Postmaster General also informed that seven
postal employees have been awarded for
their meritorious services rendered for providing best services to customers
and technology excellence in the form of Dak Sewa award among different
categories of employees. This year is
special for Punjab Circle when Meghdoot Award in the Gramin Dak Sewak category
goes to Punjab. Narinder Kumar Gramin
Dak Sewak Branch Postmaster Dagan B.O. under Hoshiarpur Division will be
honoured in New Delhi by MoS for communication for his outstanding performance
and meritorious public service at all India level.
During last one year Punjab Circle has won six medals under different
sports and cultural events of all India level and awardees are being
facilitated separately at Amritsar on 25.10.2018 for their performance in
different sports fields. Baldev Singh SPM Khalra S.O. under Amritsar Division
won Gold Medal in 20,000 Meter Race, Sandeep Kumar PA Fazilka , Jagjit Singh
Postman Kurali and Harjeet Singh PA Sabzi Mandi PO Ferozepur won Silvar in
Olympic Sprint (Cycling) team event. In Best Physique 95 Kg category Sachin Kumar PA, JF Mills PO
Amritsar and 55 Kg category and Tajinder
Singh GDSBPM , Lalu Khuman BO under Amritsar Division won Bronze Medal.
Punjab Circle has performed very well in providing services in the field
of Atal Pension Yojana, Sukanya Samridhi Yojna, Pradhan Mantri Jeewan Jyoti
Yojna and Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Beema Yojna by way of opening new accounts
and insuring urban and rural population. This year we have made 2111 APY
enrolments ( Ist in the country) , PMSBY 75242 and PMJJY 1901 and also opened
32758 Sukanya Samridhi accounts.
Anil Kumar, Chief Postmaster General, Punjab & UT Chandigarh
facilitate the ocassion where P.M. Lal,
Postmaster General was also present.
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