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India Post reaching out to new areas
INDIA POST has become the government?s new friend in development endeavours. The government is taking help of the postal department?s reach to exploit available resources. Joint ventures like this have helped India Post to emerge as a popular service provider in new areas.
INDIA POST has become the government’s new friend in development endeavours. The government is taking help of the postal department’s reach to exploit available resources. Joint ventures like this have helped India Post to emerge as a popular service provider in new areas.
Over the past few years, the postal department has entered into several new areas of public services other than communication. India Post conducts surveys of villages to assess their development potential, opened Financial Marts at post offices to provide investment advise to public and helped the Election Commission.
India Post got the new responsibilities in recognition of its better accesses and network all over country. The job of surveying villages was one such example, senior superintendent of post offices KK Yadav told Hindustan Times.
Registrar General of India (Development) has asked India Post to carry out survey of villages with a population of over 5000 in the plains and 2000 in hilly and tribal areas. The branch post-master had been trained to gather information about existing basic infrastructure, Yadav said. The post-master would also find out as to why the villages failed to become towns, Yadav added. Though the assignment was given in 2004, the survey began few months back as the exercise required certain necessary preparations, Yadav said.
The Financial Mart project was launched on July 29 last year. Under the project, post offices work as financial advisor to the public. In the first phase, 150 post offices were selected for the purpose. “The scheme is working well in the TN circle,” Yadav said. The EC utilised the services of India Post in 2004 by displaying electoral rolls at post offices. Necessary forms for amendment to the rolls were kept at the post offices.
