The Department of Posts has decided to improve Look and Feel of its post
offices through Project Arrow. The project has been launched by modernizing
departmental post offices across the country in a phased manner with an aim to
make visible, tangible and noteworthy differences in post office operations
that matter to ‘Aam Aadmi’.
It aims at comprehensive improvement of the core operations of the post office
as well as the ambience in which postal transactions are undertaken.
The number of post
offices covered for modernization under ‘Look & Feel’ component of ‘Project
Arrow’ during the last three years is as follows:
2009-10 -
500 post offices covered
2010-11 -
530 post offices covered
2011-12 - 206
post offices covered
The Department is
diversifying activities in post Office to earn additional revenue which is an
on-going process. The IT Platform set up under the IT project will support new
products and services. It had diversified its activities to utilize its vast
network to sell products and services for other organizations like:
1.Booking
of Railway reserved tickets.
2.UID
enrolment/Delivery of AADHAAR cards.
3.Selling
of passport forms in identified post offices.
4.Accepting
of utility bills in identified post offices.
5.Disbursement
of wages to MGNREGA beneficiaries through Post Office Savings bank.
6.Collection
of Rural Price Index Data – the data so collected are electronically
transmitted to Ministry of Statistics & Programme
Implementation.
7.Payment
of old age pension paid by State Government through Post Office Savings Account
and through Money Orders.
8.Sale of gold Coins.
9.Provision
of New Pension Scheme through Post Officers, etc.
This information was
given by Dr (Smt.) Killi Kruparani,
Minister of State for C&IT in written reply to a
question in Rajya Sabha today.
