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Inputs for Leveraging Post Office Network with a Task Force

Inputs for Leveraging Post Office Network with a Task Force
Start Date :
Jan 01, 2015
Last Date :
Dec 01, 2014
04:15 AM IST (GMT +5.30 Hrs)
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For delivering various Citizen centric services and furthering the reach of Financial Services including Insurance, the Government of India has set up a Task Force to examine and ...

For delivering various Citizen centric services and furthering the reach of Financial Services including Insurance, the Government of India has set up a Task Force to examine and recommend efficient utilisation and upgradation of the Post Office Network, enabled with Digital/Internet Connectivity to rural Offices and outpost areas enabling reach of different services in rural areas. This Network is also being viewed as a distribution channel to retail various schemes and services of Central Government, State Government and Private Sector Players.

Through this discussion the Department of Posts (Ministry of Communications & Information Technology) seeks suggestions on the following:

•    To provide efficient postal network and points of presence [particularly in rural areas and small towns] to Central Government Ministries / Departments, State Governments [including Local Self Government] and private sector players for delivering various citizen-centric services, scheme, products to the people.
•    To further the role of Post Offices in Financial inclusion, including Insurance products
•    The infrastructure requirements of the Post Offices and the Postal Network
•    To make the Post Offices financially viable

Last date for sending your suggestions is 30th November, 2014.

 

 

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Arun Kaliappan
Arun Kaliappan 11 years 4 months ago
The mobile collection facility shall be extended for all the villages to collect these covers from the shopkeeper. If any of the booking needs receipt, the same shall be given to the shopkeeper at very next day by the postman after getting proper enrolment at the post office. Then the consignor can very well get the receipt from the shopkeeper on the next day it self. The shopkeeper shall be compensated for this assignment either by piece rate payment system or monthly fixed payment contd...
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Arun Kaliappan 11 years 4 months ago
After that agreement the concern shopkeeper shall be issued with appropriate stamps, cover, weight machine etc...and the tariff for the consignment booking also to be given him. The collection box also shall be given to him for collecting all type of covers. contd...
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Arun Kaliappan
Arun Kaliappan 11 years 4 months ago
In which, any one of the interested permanent shopkeeper at the village shall be authorized by the post office to do such activities. In which appropriate code of conduct shall be defined for the functions and an agreement shall be arrived between the post office and the concern shop keeper for the smooth proceeding of system contd..
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Arun Kaliappan 11 years 4 months ago
5. For village side operations, a collection box is installed at every villages and the time of taking delivery also mentioned in that box. Peoples are availing this facility for sending the In-land letter and post card. For sending cover type letter, they have to travel some distance to reach the post office to do the process. contd..
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Arun Kaliappan
Arun Kaliappan 11 years 4 months ago
the delivering of covers to the consignees are getting too dely. The appropriate corrective action to be taken in that area also to make sure that the consignment is reached to the consignee in time. Hence, the implementation of consignment delivering thro’ the mobile booking/delivering system to be enforced This will help lot of development for our postal network. contd..
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Arun Kaliappan 11 years 4 months ago
4. For delivering of cover also, the postal dept is facing lot of challenges because due to better transport facility and the manpower, all most all the consignees of the courier service provider are getting the courier cover before noon to their spot. But at our postal dept. due to insufficient of above facilities, the delivering of covers to the consignees are getting too delay. cont...
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Arun Kaliappan 11 years 4 months ago
They are collecting their payment either by fortnightly or by monthly once. If the same system is implemented at our postal functions, it will give lot of development for the great network contd..
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Arun Kaliappan 11 years 4 months ago
So this inconvenience should be eliminated and appropriate corrective action to be taken to achieve spot booking and spot delivering system. Hence, the implementation of consignment booking/ delivering thro’ the mobile system has to be enforced. Apart from the above service, the Courier service providers are extending credit facility to their valued customer especially to the institution side consignors contd..
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Arun Kaliappan 11 years 4 months ago
Sir, see the difference, the institution is getting on the spot delivery as well as the proof of the delivery even though if it a small cover at their place it self. They need not employ a specific person on that job. But if it is thro our postal dept. it will require separate person to fulfill the job. contd...
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Arun Kaliappan 11 years 4 months ago
, in which they have to travel for some distance to reach the post office, specifically within their working times to do the process. Then only the cover will be sent to the consignee. But in courier service, it is not like that the concern courier man is visiting to the institution on daily basis especially in the evening time and making the booking process at the spot it self and immediately giving receipt for the proof of the booking on the spot it self. contd...
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