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 ‘AamAadmi’. 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.
Source
: PIB, 14 Dec, 2012
