Ministry of Communications
Department of Posts should strive for 25 crore postal savings accounts
from the current 17 crore in coming years-Sh. Ravi Shankar Prasad
Union Minister of Communications Shri Ravi
Shankar Prasad today said that the Department of Posts should strive
for 25 crore postal savings accounts from the current 17 crore in coming
years and should make efforts to link the same with the accounts of
India Post Payments Bank for achieving the goal of financial inclusion.
Speaking at an event of National Postal Week Celebrations here, the
Minister urged the department to enhance considerably postal insurance
accounts. He said that 3.05 crore insurance accounts in a population of
130 crore is unacceptable. He said that Postal Department should come
forward to forge partnership with global companies and the
administrative issues, if any, would be resolved amicably.
Shri Prasad asked the senior officials to
work on a set of special stamps on Mahabalipuram (Mamallapuram) in the
wake of successful informal summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi
and Chinese President Xi Jinping due to its historic significance. He
also directed the department of posts to organize a special letter
writing competition on Bapu as a tribute to 150th Birth
Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, besides coming out with a set of stamps
on unsung heroes of freedom movement and particularly of those
imprisoned in Cellular Jail in Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
The Minister released a Mobile Banking App
for POSB customers, commemorative postage stamps on India Perfumes
Agarwood and Orange Blossom and launched a Performance Dashboard of the
Department of Posts. He also distributed prizes for DhaiAkhar Letter
Writing competition and felicitated Meghdoot Awardees for their
exceptional contribution.
Speaking on the occasion, Secretary,
Department of Posts, Shri A.N.Nanda said that over the years India Post
has been providing services through its network of 1,55,000 post
offices. As a part of its savings bank schemes, the department has
opened 1.47 lakh SukanyaSamridhiYojna accounts for benefitting the girl
child. With the setting up of 13,352 Aadhaar centres, 420 Post Office
Passport SevaKendras and a robust digital platform through its Digital
Advancement of Rural Post Offices (DARPAN) for A New India , the
Department of Posts is trying to provide quality citizen centric
services to the customers, he added.
India Post is celebrating National Postal Week from 9th to 15th October. 9th October is celebrated as World Post Day. This year, this day was celebrated as 50th World
Post Day by UPU (Universal of Postal Union). India Post also organised
activities like Postathon, ‘Meet and Greet’ the beat postman – unique
concept of school children visiting Post Offices and rallies to spread
awareness about various schemes of the post office. Activities for
financial inclusion like SukanyaSamridhiYojana camps for the girl
child,holding of Postal Life Insurance and Rural Postal Life Insurance
Melas, drives to spread awareness about various Savings Bank schemes
were organised across the country during the National Postal
Week.Philately Quiz, Exhibitions, DhaiAkhar letter writing competition,
release of special covers, opening of Philately Deposit accounts,
Aadhaar enrolment camps were also organised across the country during
the week.
Source : PIB (Release ID :193805)
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Source : PIB (Release ID :193805)
