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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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Balchandra Kotian 11 years 9 months ago

Post office must work on its core job of delivery posts in time and to persons home. At this moment they deliver post many times more than 15days to 1 month delay and that too thrown anywhere. Many of the posts are not received at all. I had to stop subscribing to periodicals because I receive only 50% of them. The postal network is huge and can give any courier company's a big challenge if they work on their core competency area rather than working on different areas like banking, gold etc.

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Balaji Esseikuadumperumal 11 years 9 months ago

A person sitting in the Counter handles so many products i.e regd/Speed/VP/Stampsales/enquries/MO/eMO/iMO/WUMTS/Money Gram/SB/RD/TD/PPF/MIS/SCSS/NSC/KVP/WEBCCC /TNEB Bill/Telephone Bill/TNPSC Exam Fee/Delivery of all booked items/Despatch of all items/Accounting of all transactions etc.For this separate softwares to manage but UPS not working Genset not working no adequate Human resource no proper training no user friendly softwares.So all the services implemented gets failed

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Balaji Esseikuadumperumal 11 years 9 months ago

Being a Government Organisation Most of the schemes are not implemented in a correct manner.For example if Booking of Money order is ebased,the software is not online module it is the combination of Online and Offline so at any end if technology fails results in customer dissatisfaction...No Proper training before implementation...Poor hardware support...Poor infrastructure even no toilet facilities...Human resource not properly managed..

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Balaji Esseikuadumperumal 11 years 9 months ago

Lack of Adequate technlogy to meet the latest trends pulls back the Post Office down,Implementation of Any products needs to reach each and every corner of the staff.Uniform Working procedure is needed.Even though Post offices are Computerised there is no use simply needs to maintain the paper work like manual works,because the usage of Softwares and Systems is not user friendly and is not in a common software platform.So many Softwares are handed by the officials.Nearly 12 to 15 softwares

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Balaji Esseikuadumperumal 11 years 9 months ago

Being a Postal Employee,I wish to say some suggestions 1) Post Offices are functioning in a rented building mostly in a place outside the delivery area 2) Buildings for Post Office must be provided with Good Look and Feel 3) Revised recruitment methods meeting the latest IT Trends 4) Promotions to a Post needs to be revised 5) Good Systems and latest IT enabled Integrated software needed 6) Without Airconditioner most of the IT enabled devices are accumulated with Dust

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DHARMENDER NADIMETLA 11 years 9 months ago

Access to the rural areas has to increased.urban areas entrepreneur activities can be planned with modern infra.Shares and enhancing the services will help a lot.Promote new schemes to get employed youth from all organizations.Good luck

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Manoj Khade 11 years 9 months ago

Post Office be converted to Logistics Centers for e-retailers like Flipkart and amazon. Pension be distributed through Post Offices. Armed Force Personnel families survives on Postal Money Orders and Letter posted to the Front. This should be speedy exercise. India Post must be leveraged for all Govt Schemes benefits. Letter Writing habits must be re-energized and re-introduced for younger generations. There should Postal Card for every citizen like Pan Card as identity proof.

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Vivek Jaiswal 11 years 9 months ago

Excellent topic! Postal services could become financially viable by becoming a backbone support to the growing and promising ecommerce industry. improve reliability, deliverability of address, and online package tracking for online shoppers. ecommerce's next big growth comes from smaller cities and towns where India Post could offer cost effective solution. To increase profitability per sq. ft. consider selling other products such as mobile topups, sim cards etc. through post office network.

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Vijay Pandit 11 years 9 months ago

For competing with 'Courier agencies-a)Keep post offices open till 8.00pm or give frachasis to the same shops who accept documents from courier. Give them some commision.Post offices have excellent reach and network.If properly organised , it can compete with courier agencies. Also appoint un employed youth for distributing the courier.

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Kamalika Dasgupta 11 years 9 months ago

Spend a fair amount to promote the monetary schemes in Post Offices. Track the ponzi scheme agents who have become a victim in the Saradha scam and such other scams. Train and use them for the promotion.

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