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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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Annapurna Nanjappa 11 years 10 months ago

P.Os’ may look into the ways in which the Australian and USA P.Os’ are functioning and making inroads into viable business solutions. Their sites are more joyful and people friendly, especially the Australian’s teacher and students pages.

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Annapurna Nanjappa 11 years 10 months ago

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Annapurna Nanjappa 11 years 10 months ago

The rural and urban divide is geographical distribution, demography; all people are Indians, but, you need to be rural person to own land in rural India, you are Indian but need another to introduce to the P.O. or bank, introductions should come from a/c holders in the appropriate banks and P.O. This is no different from the frustrating rules and laws which exist in J&K. All these separation, seclusion, segregation demeans the existence of humans and their rights to live, to settle down in a

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AMIT KOLEY 11 years 10 months ago

I have never heard anyone doubting the activities of India Post. India Post has many potentialities. It can work as banker to millions of poor Indians. It can work as Information Dissemination Centres where young and aged both groups of people will come and collect various information. It can work as circulation point of government journals, and magazines like YOJANA, KURUKSHETRA and magazines of various departments. Besides, post office can work towards spreading financial literacy.

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Annapurna Nanjappa 11 years 10 months ago

The question of Post Offices’ work ways is a talk for two ways like any services sector. To think that the P.Os’ know all their customers is incorrect today. At the same time to think when they know or if they know they would have unbiased views and be respectful, is no longer true either. To some extent they know people in towns and cities though not all, as in these areas the people are on the move, a lot of time, people may change their addresses but do not change their P.O., Banks.

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GK Kamath 11 years 10 months ago

11. Dedicated Logistics services may be developed for postal services. Which will help in employment/entrepreneurship in rural areas. 12. Dept. of Post may tie up with Private companies/Corporates to provide parcel/postal services. 13. Any new schemes to be introduced by central/state govt. to be routed via post offices where ever applicable and possible. 14.In cities,branches of post may be opened at popular shopping malls, trade centers as a trial basis with timing,Say 3pm to 11pm. .

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Sheetal Gupta 11 years 10 months ago

Its a era of E-commerce. Today total postage & courier traffic is more then 30-40% is of E-commerce shopping through different portals. We should talk with E-commerce companies and done tie ups with them and ensure them with our delivery and competitive pricing. I am also into eCommerce business and believe me there is a huge scope of courier and parcel handling services in India. There are soo many small and medium size eCommerce companies in India who are struggling for tieup. we shd tieup.

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GK Kamath 11 years 10 months ago

6. Insurance, ticket booking & utility bill payments may be done through post offices and suitable benefits may be provided for consumers. 7.In rural areas, Post offices may be utilized as cyber cafes by providing PCs, printer and scanner facility at bare minimum price for common people. 8. It can be also used as a basic infrastructure to achieve digital literacy. 9. Local employments can be think off by partially outsourcing the letter/parcel services.

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GK Kamath 11 years 10 months ago

I will like to note following: 1. All post offices shall be connected over internet, across the country. 2. There shall be CSC ( common service centre) Counters at each post office. 3. Almost all online facilities shall be available across post offices. 4. Any nationalized bank (say SBI) may have tie up with dept. of post and shall have an ATM at each post. Any cash related transaction shall be linked with this ATM. 5.There shall be kiosk kind of a thing which shall provide all online facility

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Annapurna Nanjappa 11 years 10 months ago

The Indian post offices should be treated as franchise of a bigger postal corporation or part of cumulative employment portal of India, this would create a lot of jobs in India and in rural India.

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