Center for Excellence
in Postal Technology is constantly making efforts to bring in comfort at Post offices
in implementing various Departmental software.
The expectations of the customers are rapidly changing. To meet the
changing requirements of the customers Department is making efforts to upgrade
the existing products or introducing new products. This
update takes care of all the upgrades and new products being introduced by the
Department.
The most salient features of this update are
i)
Customized
installer for upgrading Meghdoot to update-3.
ii)
Online
acceptance of fee for entrance examination.
iii)
Disabling
booking of Registered letters without barcode.
iv). Offline booking of WNX articles.
iv)
e-Money order Compilation
v)
MNOP
implementation in Rnet.
vi)
Detailed information is
furnished below about each change implemented in the software.
General Manager,
Center for Excellence
in Postal Technology,
Mysore.
Detailed information
about each change implemented in the software
Reason for release: Update-3 to
Meghdoot 7.0 is being released in order to implement major changes in most of
the Meghdoot modules besides provision of some other minor changes and
rectifying the errors/bugs brought to the notice of CEPT till now.
Who has to Upgrade: Update-3 has to
be implemented by all the Computerized Post Offices in the Country.
Pre-requisite: Update-1 to
Meghdoot version 7.0 released by CEPT on 05.12.2011.
Location to download the
Software:
ftp://ftp.ptcinfo.org/Meghdoot7/Updates/Update-3/
Detailed Release document containing
Installation procedure and the modifications done in each module is also
available the release document. The Software containing UPDATE-3 TO
MEGHDOOT 7.0 can be downloaded from 15.09.2012.
Module
wise major modifications
Module
|
Changes made to the
Software
|
Improvement in
Operations/Service
|
Point of Sale
|
Booking of Offline WNX
Transactions
|
Hitherto, WNX server
needs to be connected for every event of booking process. This offline
booking reduces the transaction time at counter considerably.
|
VP booking facility for the
Registered Newspaper
|
Booking of Registered Newspaper
with VP facility is introduced, which was not available earlier.
|
|
PLI/RPLI validations
prescribed by PLI Directorate, at the time of booking
|
Due to these validations, data
mis-match between the NIC PLI data file and Meghdoot can be reduced
considerably.
|
|
Despatch
|
Closing of more than one bag
to the same destination in same despatch
|
Till now, only one bag can be
closed in Despatch module to a particular destination Post Office in a single
despatch. This is relaxed.
|
Implementation of MNOP
concept for the Registered Bags
|
Post Offices can close bags
only to the L1/L2 Mail Offices, as per the MNOP concept.
|
|
Postman
|
All Delivery related options
for Speed Post Cash on Delivery articles. The product is
yet to be launched.
|
Facilitates delivery/despatch
of SPCOD articles through Post office and its attached BOs.
|
Bag Receipt and Bag Opening
Options for Registered Bags
|
Facilitates capturing the Bag
receipt and Bag opening scan as required for MNOP review on RNet
|
|
Transmission of data of eVP
articles to RNet server
|
Facilitates complete tracking
of eVP articles through RNet website.
|
|
MO Compilation
|
eMO Compilation options
provided
|
eMO Compilation options
introduced with this release automates the process of submitting Issue/paid
returns to DA(P).
|
eMO
|
Flushing of old Bulk payee
data in addition to flushing of Booking data to backup
database
|
This enhances the performance
of eMO module operation especially in bigger offices where Bulk Booking
and Bulk Delivery is happening. It is ensured that even after flushing
the old data, the reports for the older dates can be seen as usual.
|
Capturing the data of eMO
Compilation and transmission to Central Server
|
Facilitates cross checking of
eMO compilation figures received from Head Offices
|
|
ePayemnt
|
Collection of Examination Fee
|
New service for Collection of
online Examination Fee introduced
|
Speed Post Cash on Delivery
data transmission. articles. The product is yet to be launched.
|
Transmission SPCOD articles data
from the Office of Delivery to Office of payment for effecting payment
through Treasury.
|
|
Treasury
|
Capturing the Western Union
Transaction Data
|
Provision to feed data of
individual WUIMT transactions, so as to transmit the data through AccountsMIS
application for consolidated figures at central server
|
Provision for Speed Post Cash
on Delivery Payment . . The product is yet to be launched.
|
Facilitates payment of SPCOD
delivered amount
|
|
Accounts
|
Calculation of Income Tax as
per new rates
|
|
Schedules
|
PLI/RPLI validations
prescribed by PLI Directorate, at the time of data entry by Schedules Clerk.
|
Due to these validations, data
mis-match between the NIC PLI data file and Meghdoot can be reduced
considerably.
|
AccountsMIS (DET)
|
Identification of offices
doing fake reporting .
|
Post Offices cannot resort to
transmit duplicate DET data.
|
Capturing the Western Union
Money Order Transactions
|
Creation of a separate file
with individual transactions of WUMT transactions and transmission of the
same to Central Server for centralized pairing.
|
|
Installer Application
|
New Application to upgrade
all the modules of Update-3
|
Automates the up-gradation
process of all the applications in a particular system
|
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