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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)
Submission Closed

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.

 

 

Showing 1858 Submission(s)
subhash331
Rajeev Chidambaram 10 years 4 months ago

In the Postal clerical level, there is absence of restful phases in life, relaxation, etc...The postal clerical work is mostly repetitive, quantitative, and even tiresome at times. But, the direct recruit I.A.S.officers do enjoy a lot of respect, official powers, etc., whereas, the bottom level or postal clerical level staff have to face many adverse working conditions like frequent power cuts, problems in computer hardware and softwares.

subhash331
Rajeev Chidambaram 10 years 4 months ago

I would like to stress here that the ancient English saying, All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, is quite true when it is applied to Postal clerical employees. In the recent times, the number of Postal clerical employees proceeding on Boluntary Retirement has been on the rise, due to constant work pressure, electronic surveillance of daily clerical duties by the deployment of Intenet, lack of motivation, both financially and emotionally.

ritesh.chandran@gmail.com
Ritesh Chandran 10 years 4 months ago

I am proud that our Postal Service was the backbone for our development and cannot let it go at any given time. Let us think of innovative solution where our postal service can act as a national courier service with such a big reach. With such low cost.It can beat the pvt.courier players and give upright competitions and give a run for their money.Let us have Postal services acts as a micro financing firm under Mudra bank and reach out for the needy and have the rise of the INDIA POST AGAIN.

amolsonaikar@gmail.com
Amol Sonaikar 10 years 4 months ago

1. ATMs at all Post offices.
2. Prepaid envelopes of 1 , 2 , 5 , 10, 50 Rs to send across country in different sizes. These should include vending machines
3. Post ATM should allow withdrawals from all banks
4. Post offices should be working on Weekends. Speed Post should have 24 hr service
5. Post should empty boxes twice or thrice a day instead of ones
6. More staff must be recruited to provide these services. Post should accept payments with Debit Cards.

pawan kakrania
pawan kakrania 10 years 4 months ago

first solved complaint against post offices , many more posts are missing & tempered . my complaints not solved last 6 months, i have send letter every officer but no reply , i have send some attechments see this

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sachkahoonga@gmail.com
PRADIP GUPTA 10 years 4 months ago

postal services are guided by the british times and a lot has changed since then. like telegram even the money orders and post cards are not relevant in the time of sms,e-mails and other digital means. the government can save a lot of money by discontinuing these and providing other means of commuting. also the stamping on the post are still illegible as before. efforts should be made to improve this.

Khushwant Singh
Khushwant Singh 10 years 4 months ago

In India, online retail market is at a roll. It is growing at an exponential rate. Thousands of people in India are buying stuff from online portal such as Flipkart, Snapdeal, Jabong.com, etc. Indian online retailers hire their own delivery boys and professional courier services to deliver the products. These online retailers never use services of India Post – Indian postal service. For detailed idea, see attached PDF.

subhash331
Rajeev Chidambaram 10 years 4 months ago

Under the brand name of modernisation and computerisation, new changes in the working softwares ( like introduction of Finacle and McCamish) have come to stay. This brings the postal employees to be exposed to new working knowledge, and certain senior employees naturally find it a bit difficult to assimilate the new methodologies. This seems inevitable in any modern organisation.

subhash331
Rajeev Chidambaram 10 years 4 months ago

Due to the electronic surveillance by the higher authorities through the medium of Internet, all the clerical works performed in all INDIAN post offices have become highly porous and transparent for the higher officers. This naturally increases the psychological stress of the working clerical employees. This is one of the bad side effects of computerisation, amidst the hidden benefits associated with modernisation.

subhash331
Rajeev Chidambaram 10 years 4 months ago

The modern post offices in India handle a vast variety of works, especially in the clerical cadre, in the guise of generating more revenues out of the businesses carried out. But, the Banks handle only the Banking works. Hence, the INDIAN post offices perform a lot of agency functions. In the name of modernisation and computerisation, the clerical staff are being subjected to " electronic surveillance " by the higher authorities, since the medium of Internet is deployed.

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