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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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Sourabh Chaturvedi 11 years 5 months ago

Post offices can do better if they adopt better technology, do a bit more networking ando tie ups worldwide as done by many successful private players and adopt a bit more professional attitude towards work. I have ecommerce business and we ship globally. Initially started with Indian postal services to save cost but the kind of services my business received forced me to switch over to professional foreign players just to get better qualitype service. Many long pending issues with Post office

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Navneet Singh 11 years 5 months ago

To make post offices finacially viable, include courier services in the same with taht post offices could atleats use there idle assets

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Manoj Khade 11 years 5 months ago

Post Office is important network and all money transactions to be happened quickly be done through post offices. Postal Savings Scheme be revitalized and it can become the access point for all govt scheme benefits. Air Cargo Operations be initiated through Post Office for Perishable Cargo and it can become champion for Cold Storage Countrywide.

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Khalid Sheikh 11 years 5 months ago

See all the infrastructure postel department have can become a big Multinational Company in Cargo national and oversea , postal national and oversea . Private sector taking advantage govt department not working or working very slow , take young boys and girls and make postal department BOOM GOV just this department to DIGITAL INDIA frame and see the result man . Please make fresh legs come to every department of govt with digital india .

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RAMESH MAHESHWARI 11 years 5 months ago

Create IT infrastructure in every post office and offer paid(nominal) IT support services like communication by email, online bill payment, railway booking,extraction of informations from net etc.to those who are not having access to IT/Net

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Sreedhar G 11 years 5 months ago

Create warehouses to help farming community and link up with postal department(Communication/Delivery services). Help with digital pricing to farming community, let them decide where it should be delivered from home and so called Postal Dept take the lead to deliver. The Speed/right Information is mantra for better pricing. If it facilitates it who knows farming community or retailer is ready to share premium.

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Sreedhar G 11 years 5 months ago

Bring relevance, change the name to Communication department, merge BSNL with it. Recruit energetic people. eCom is going to be big, have packages (shipment) for small/medium/big eretailers. Be aggressive in this space, may be SHGs can be roped in. Employees needs to be persuaded to understand the realities. Otherwise one day they would be disappearing.

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JAGDISH KUMAR BUBNA 11 years 5 months ago

courier companies are doing roaring business because of failure of the post office network and reasons for such failure are common thru all govt depts. High charges of money orders and delay in remittance lead to private bankers spreading their tentacles over rural folk. Post office network should be overhauled first for its original business and then one should think of utilizing it for other purposes. Otherwise only no of govt employees will increase along with its attendant perils.

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Mrinal Braj 11 years 5 months ago

Post offices can be effective network for food security. We need to get out of current system of low price shops for food distribution and use post office network to deliver food grains at home. Food grains should be packed in FCI facilities and directly delivered to consumer in need. In one stroke we'll eliminate corrupt network of food distribution and post offices will also get handsome returns. Win win for all; govt reaches to needy, people get food at home, quality and quatity is maintained

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Yash Agarwal 11 years 5 months ago

Post office has the largest and most reliable network across the country. They can start distributing utility bills for water and electricity, and collecting the payment for utility services. The e-retailers are suffering with delivery problems, and there is no network that can compete with Post Office network, and hence upgrading the IT management system of post office will boost services. Introduce e-printing of postal tickets.

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