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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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Rumi Engineer 11 years 10 months ago

Firstly, our post offices have to look smart and professional. Currently all post offices that I have seen are dingy, dirty and littered. Post offices should also sell books and stationery, which will earn extra income. Computerization has to be brought in and smarter and more efficient staff employed.

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ARCHANA RAJAN 11 years 10 months ago

Our postal savings, monthly schemes, recurring deposits require a computer print out compulsory as the staff in these departments are making errors when they are handwriting the entries in our pass books. its important to give it top most priority

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SUBHASH NARANG 11 years 10 months ago

1. Employ Graduates only. 2. Organise inital training for new recruits. 3. keep watch on performance. 4. Incentives for good work.

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NARESH RAMADAS KINI 11 years 10 months ago

Speed post is not a safe process. We need to ask senders to produce ids. Post offices shall have CCTVs. In Mangalore from HAMPANAKATTA post office, somebody sent the letter by speed post in false name(my name) to a public body to spoil the rapo.. we could track the time of booking but not d person bcz of absence of CCTV n above system..ppl may miss use to send harmfull matls too.. Hope MODI ji vl recognise my suggestions and MODI fy d INDIA POST -JAI HIND

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Ashish Namdeo 11 years 10 months ago

-Provide Email facility as a service for computer illiterates -Have multiple types of delivery options Rs. 1 to Rs 100 -Make Exam forms available here

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Krishna Prasad 11 years 10 months ago

Post Offices can be used as mini data centers for providing various citizen services. 1. Enhance the technology and the workforce within each post-office to collect personal data and provide Citizen ID to every citizen coming within the area of that post-office 2. Various P2P (People To People) services can also be thought of like services provided by Olx.in for example 3. Improve the timelines for providing courier service which is already present in the post-office (some fine tuning!!)

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Ashish Namdeo 11 years 10 months ago

"Its been long time I have seen a postman, they are extinct now." Take inspiration from Royal Mail of UK and just aspire to become like them. -Open branches at a radius of ever 2 km, this necessarily need not be a big centers. -Use it for Bill payments, passport and Visa applications -Provide service for bigger items and insurance for valuable deliveries -Increase the salary (on the basis of performance) and working hours of personnel, train them to treat customers well.

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AMRENDRA NATH TIWARI 11 years 10 months ago

1. Recruit Tech -savvy young employees at post offices and then 2.Change the role of post office to Common Service Centres(CSC), like e-Gram, Pragya Centre etc or some of the facilities that are being provided or planned to be provided at CSCs can be transfered to Post Offices.

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Dilip Kumar Choudhary 11 years 10 months ago

Also it is needed to upgrade their old systems and mechanism from their offices. Maximum systems are outdated and always get hang during the transaction which creates bad impression on customers cause of which it is losing Goodwill from market. By adopting new techniques (Different kinds of softwares - to track docket, accounting purpose, etc.), and it can also introduce many tax saving deposit schemes for the salaries persons.

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TRILOK SINGH LOOMBA 11 years 10 months ago

Post Office has been like a friendly neighborhood, but we ignored it. We rather supported Bank. We had emerged from the reign of BANIA and now we have fallen in the trap of BANK. In terms of numerology they both total 10. If we have to connect with people even lying remotest in our country we have to resurrect POST OFFICE. They will bring back the human touch even while working on modernized systems. They have been the best thrift institutions who promised to double your investment in five years

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