Hyderabad,
September 27, 2016
Exclusive circle:Minister of Labour and Employment Bandaru Dattatreya,
Union Minister of Urban Development M. Venkaiah Naidu and Union Minister
of State for Communications and Railways Manoj Sinha inaugurating
Telangana Postal circle in Hyderabad.— Photo: K.V.S. Giri
A postal circle co-terminus with Telangana State was
inaugurated by Union Minister of Urban Development M. Venkaiah Naidu
here on Monday.
It is the 23rd circle in the country.
It will on an average disburse social security pensions to 17.7 lakh
persons. The postal service will also offer services, including bill
collections and sale of non judicial stamp papers. The Telangana circle
will have 423 urban and 433 rural post offices. It will also have 159
urban and 5,758 rural branch offices. The number of departmental staff
in Telangana cirlce will be 6,532 and 8,754 grameen dak sevaks.
The
department aims at establishing core banking solutions across the
network of all post offices in the country, Minister of State with
Independent Charge for Communications and Minister of State for Railway
Manoj Sinha said speaking at the inaugural. India Post has been doing
well in terms of saving accounts and also communication dissemination,
he said. Especially in rural areas postal service means empowerment,
education and information, he added.
Indian
postal service has been given the license for setting up payment bank
and 650 bank branches will be operational in the country by the end of
this month. Department of Posts is actively pursuing Union schemes
including Atal Pension Yojana and Jan Jeevan Beema Yojana, the Minister
explained.
In his inaugural address, Mr. Naidu said
from now Telangana postal circle and Andhra Pradesh postal circle will
cater to the respective States and ensure efficiency in both.
“Establishment of postal service in India was a game changer. It made
letter writing an important part of the country’s literature,” he said
citing the examples of letters of Mahatma Gandhi, Sardar Patel and
Subhash Chandra Bose. He suggested there should be a day dedicated for
handwritten letters. “Let’s say everybody will write a letter to his or
her friend. There is something fresh and beautiful in letter writing,”
he said. The Minister pointed out that India has the largest postal
service in the world. There are 1.5 lakh post offices in India, out
which 90 per cent are in rural areas.
Adding on to
the country’s economy, Postal department has rolled out Banking
solutions in 9,583 Post Offices and ATMs have been installed at 125
locations, Mr. Naidu added.
Source : http://www.thehindu.com
No comments:
Post a Comment