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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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himanshu bhuwalka 11 years 6 months ago

6. PoS (Point of Sale) machines to be installed in each post offic es for enabling various shcemes for poor, rural india, girl child women related issues. 7. P.O. enabled for depositing water, electric & other utility bills linked with their ATM cards.

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himanshu bhuwalka 11 years 6 months ago

post offices are our vital life line in rural india. they run every nook and corner of this country. govt can make post offices act like a 1. ATM centre 2. Banking Centre. 3. Insurance agents and notifier. 4. it can also give broadband connections in remote corners. 5. Post offices should open their Postal cyber cafes of their own with biometric identity facility.

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Raghavan Lakshminarasimhan 11 years 6 months ago

A post office's strength is the ability to network throughout india.. Parcel Delivery or Information Delivery at a low cost can set up competition. Post office can also setup shops to send and receive gifts from one place to another through a debit/credit card...

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SANDIP JAIN 11 years 6 months ago

Dear sir, Post office network is one of the biggest network in india .It is present in every corner of our nation. I was just going through your vision of CSC to bring all the neccesity under one roof.to make it grow faster i think we can use the post office network by opening a seperate department in the post office. As it will save our time to reach people of the remotest corner of the country

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Renu Dahiya 11 years 6 months ago

Indian post has a pan India infrastructure. A post office is something that is present in vicinity of almost every Indian so it should be used for other providing other services as well. Most importantly banking services. Post offices have been handling money order for so many years so they can be integrated with banking sector. They can be linked to preferably NABARD so as easy credit can be made available to every Indian through cooperatives or otherwise.

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Shashi Somani 11 years 6 months ago

Postoffice has very wide network in India and can be used for public services as below: 1. All Govt.(central/state/local) related documents submission activities eg. Birth/Death Certificate along with Aadhar Card, all LIC/GIC/Medical insurance related activities, submission of applications for Caste/Income certificates, submission of income tax returns, improve parcel services by adding collection agents which will create jobs for the people, selling/charging of mobile connections, ATMs.

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Rajat Rahul 11 years 6 months ago

regarding the indian post service i would like to suggest that as other courier service charge and give service same type of thing can be done in our indian postal service. and regarding price and all if government start giving such service soon they will get so much of clients that they can easily lower there prices.

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Uddhav Malekar 11 years 6 months ago

I think the India Post is largest network than any other networks. I would like to suggest that first give preference to repair and paint our Post office building. We are working hard for increasing business but various problems like leakage of building,not painted building, insufficient printers, computers and also old rules like no power to SSPOs of more than 2 thousand.. so i request that change rules, polices, and also do audit of buildings in every years.....

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Hansel DSouza 11 years 6 months ago

I'm sure this point has also been touched upon by someone.There are multiple investment schemes available in the PO today. However, due to poor marketing they do not reach the public's ears. Moreover, due to ancient methods of piles of paperwork and lack of digitization,people tend to avoid such schemes.Government linked schemes are the safest schemes today,yet they do not get the response required due to the poor backend environment that we have decided to cling onto instead of improving them

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Hansel DSouza 11 years 6 months ago

As someone has rightly mentioned in the earlier posts, merger with the Digital India project can also give our PO's a boost as almost everyone today uses the Internet. Statuses of the deliveries should be updated timely and not just on delivery. Having the power to track your packages gives people the comfort and confidence in the network.

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