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.

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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.