*Payment to be made through Savings Bank accounts of post offices (zero balance workers wage account).
*Disbursement of wages within the prescribed time frame.
*Provision for advance deposit of one month’s wage in the Head Post office of the District Headquarter.
*Co-ordination meetings between Department and State Government authorities.
* Data Collection for Rural Consumer Price Index
A mechanism has been worked out to calculate and disseminate the consumer price index with the help of data being collected for 1,181 villages through selected post offices throughout the country. The first set of consumer price indices was brought out in February 2011. India Post is thus playing a crucial role in providing Infrastructural support to enable the concerned government departments to design and implement policies to improve the well being of all the citizens of India.
Mail Network Optimization Project
Department of Post had initiated Mail Network Optimization Project in March 2010 with a view to streamline mail operations and to improve the quality of mail related services offered to the people. It involved optimization of the erstwhile mail network, standardization of processes and development of an effective performance monitoring system. As part of this project, the operational network for Speed Post and other categories of mail has been restructured leading to optimized network and simplified operations.
Speed Post is a premium product offered by the Department with time bound delivery and tracking facility. As part of the project, a major emphasis has been laid on providing complete tracking information for Speed Post items on the website (www.indiapost.gov.in) for the benefit of the people using Speed Post. As a result, in the last two years, the number of items having complete tracking information on the website has gone up from 63 lakhs to 2.78 Crores per month. Speed Post transit has improved by more than a day on an average across the network.
A comprehensive online monitoring system for Speed Post operations has been developed and performance of operational units is monitored in terms of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) on a day-to-day basis.
(PIB Features.)
Courtesy: http://pib.nic.in
