The Department administers Postal Life Insurance for the benefit of Postal, Telecom and other Central Govt. Employees and Employees of State Governments, Public Sector Undertakings, Nationalized Banks and Local bodies etc. Planning and Policy-making at Headquarters. The Postal Services Board is the apex management body of the Department, comprising the Chairman (who is also the Secretary, Department of Posts and Director General) and six Members. The six members of the Board hold functional portfolios of Operations, Personnel, PLI, HRD, Technology and Planning. The Joint Secretary and Financial Advisor to the Department is a permanent invitee to the Board. The Secretary, Postal Services Board, assists the Board. Deputy Directors General, Directors and Assistant Directors General provide necessary support to the Board at the Headquarters.
Postal Circles for
providing postal services, the whole country has been divided in to 22
Postal circles extending postal services to 30 States and 6 UTs. Each
circle is co-terminus with a State except (i) the North Eastern Circle,
which comprises six North Eastern States, (ii) Maharashtra circle which
includes Goa, (iii) West Bengal Circle includes Sikkim and the Union
Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, (iv) Kerala circle includes
the Union Territory of Lakshadweep and Mahe District of Puducherry (UT),
(v) Punjab Circle includes the Union Territory of Chandigarh, (vi)
Gujarat circle includes Daman, Diu, Dadra and Nagar Haveli (UT), (vii)
Andhra Pradesh Circle includes Telangana State and (viii) Tamil Nadu
Circle includes Union Territory of Puducherry ( Except Mahe District).
The Chief Postmaster
General heads each Circle. Each Circle is divided into Regions
comprising groups of field units, called Divisions (Postal / RMS
Divisions). Each Region is headed by a Postmaster General. In the
Circles , DAP and Regions, there are other functional supporting
logistics units like Circle Stamp Depots, Postal Store Depots and Mail
Motor Service.
Army Postal Services
Over and above these 22 Circles, the communication needs of the armed
forces are catered to by the Base Circle. Base Circle is headed by the
Additional Director General, Army Postal Service. The officer cadre of
Army Postal Services is drawn on deputation from the Indian Postal
Service. 75 % of the other ranks of the Army Postal Service are drawn
from the Department of Posts and the remaining personnel are recruited
by the Army.
Operational Units
:-There are 21 GPOs presently functioning in the country. They are:
Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh Circle), Guwahati (Assam Circle),
Patna(Bihar), Delhi (Delhi), Ahmedabad (Gujarat), Ambala (Haryana),
Shimla (Himachal Pradesh), Sri Nagar (Jammu & Kashmir), Ranchi
(Jharkhand),Bangalore (Karnataka),Thiruvanantapuram (Kerala), Bhopal
(Madhya Pradesh),Mumbai (Maharashtra),Shillong(North East),Bhubaneswar
Orissa), Chandigarh (Punjab), Jaipur (Rajasthan), Chennai (Tamil Nadu),
Dehradun (Uttrakhand), Lucknow Uttar Pradesh) and Kolkata (West Bengal
Circle).
Kausik chennai: Rafi Ahmed Kidwai National Postal Academy (RAKNPA), Ghaziabad is the Apex Training Institution and caters to the training needs of the managerial cadres of India Post. It conducts induction training of Indian Postal Service officers and mid-carrier training programmes for Indian Postal Service officers. It also conducts Induction Training for Gr.`B‟ officers besides some specialized need based training's on technology, Marketing and other fields of importance.
There are six Postal
Training Centers at Darbhanga, Guwahati, Madurai, Mysore, Saharanpur and
Vadodra. These Training Centres cater to the training needs of
Inspectorial cadre (Inspector Posts/Assistant Superintendents of Posts)
and all Gr. `C‟ employees (Postal Assistants/Sorting Assistants. They
also conduct induction training for the Inspector Posts and for Postal
Assistants/Sorting Assistants.
383 Workplace Training
Centres (WTCs) in circles are operational. These WTCs cater to the
training needs of various categories of staff near their work place.
There are also 5 Zonal
Training Centres (ZTCs) which cater to training needs of the Postal
Accounts Personnel. Engineering wing comprising of Architectural, Civil
and Electrical Engineering disciplines is entrusted with design and
construction of all Major & Minor building projects and maintenance
of buildings in the Department.
