GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
English language

Home | MyGov

Accessibility
Accessibility Tools
Color Adjustment
Text Size
Navigation Adjustment
Screen Reader iconScreen Reader
Menus
Sticky Menu

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.

 

 

Reset
Showing 1858 Submission(s)
Rajeev Chidambaram
Rajeev Chidambaram 11 years 1 month ago
India Post is the only department which does not focus much on the welfare of its most hard working Postal assistants. Most of the postal employees are not being permitted to avail their own, eligible and accumulated Earned Leave and Medical leave. They are being deprived of their basic fundamental rights. The Postal assistants are forced to perform multifarious clerical duties and they are not being treated properly.
Dislike (0)
Reply
Report Spam
Rajeev Chidambaram
Rajeev Chidambaram 11 years 1 month ago
I know many postal assistants were forced to go on VRS due to deteriorating health conditions and lack of proper motivation ( emotionally, mentally and intellectually). It is quite true that health is mightier than wealth. Money, even though it is a good motivator, is only a means and not an end in itself. One can buy medicines, and not health. One can buy books, and not wisdom. One can buy cosy bed, and not good sleep.
Dislike (0)
Reply
Report Spam
Rajeev Chidambaram
Rajeev Chidambaram 11 years 1 month ago
Since the Finacle and McCamish work only on broadband internet and electricity, most of the INDIAN post offices will be largely affected due to frequent power cuts and broadband disconnections. The postal assistants now work upto nine o' clock in the night time to complete the day to day works. Why the Department keeps the idea of Voluntary Retirement as a closely guarded secret???? Health is mightier than wealth. Money is only a means and not an end in itself.
Dislike (0)
Reply
Report Spam
Rajeev Chidambaram
Rajeev Chidambaram 11 years 1 month ago
Due to the blatant refusal of DA MERGER AND INTERIM RELIEF, most of the postal employees are greatly de motivated and dissatisfied, since they have a lot of financial commitments and outstanding loans to be repaid. The work culture is repetitive and tiresome. Most of the postal employees are not fully prepared to handle the new operating softwares like Finacle and McCamish. The Department is rushing through the Finacle and McCamish.
Dislike (0)
Reply
Report Spam
Rajeev Chidambaram
Rajeev Chidambaram 11 years 1 month ago
All the postal employees are suffocating and suffering a lot due to the preparatory works for CBS implementation and many postal assistants have to work in post offices even on Sundays and National Holidays!! What a pity?! Even hard working postal assistants are discouraged and de motivated a lot. As such , they proceed on Voluntary Retirement , even if they liked to work further.....This is highly inhumane and tragic.
Dislike (0)
Reply
Report Spam
Rajeev Chidambaram
Rajeev Chidambaram 11 years 1 month ago
The Banks and LIC OF INDIA do not compel the public to attend their offices again and again. The ATMS and even Cash Deposit Machines are used for the well being of the public. But, it is not so for the INDIA Post. I know many Postal employees who fell sick on duty due to excessive work torture and even died due to lack of proper motivation in work, both financially and emotionally. Most Postal employees do not get their own leave at credit in times of dire need. Pathetic indeed!
Dislike (0)
Reply
Report Spam
Rajeev Chidambaram
Rajeev Chidambaram 11 years 1 month ago
The stamp sales must be compulsorily privatised since at present, all the public have to come to the post office premises to purchase stamps and other stationery. In this age, the Banks and LIC OF INDIA do provide International debit and credit cards, online net banking, mobile banking, debit card to card money transfer, Premium collection centres to remit LIC premia at their convenience, etc But, only in India Post the public are forced to come to the post office premises.
Dislike (1)
Reply
Report Spam
Rajeev Chidambaram
Rajeev Chidambaram 11 years 1 month ago
I wish that India Post must encourage and promote " Golden Handshake" or Voluntary Retirement for all those Postal employees who have already completed TWENTY YEARS of qualifying service. This will be a boon for medically unfit and mentally unwilling employees to leave the Department with peace of mind and it provides a golden chance for the highly qualified and unemployed youth to find decent jobs in India Post.
Dislike (1)
Reply
Report Spam
Rajeev Chidambaram
Rajeev Chidambaram 11 years 1 month ago
It is my most humble opinion that the implementation of Finacle ( Core Banking Solutions) and McCamish must not be hastened like this.....Most of the Postal Assistants have not yet prepared themselves for the new operating systems. In many Postal Dvisions, the post offices are being trusted forcefully with Finacle and McCamish, and the senior Postal clerks are subjected to severe psychological stress due to the speedy preparatory works. Many senior Postal Assistants have proceeded on VRS.
Dislike (0)
Reply
Report Spam
Sticky Menu