Chief Postmaster General
Andhra Pradesh and Telangana States B. V. Sudhakar, trying his hand at a
two-wheeler while launching the first of its kind mechanized letter Box
clearance service in Hyderabad at Dak Sadan on Wednesday.
Tirumala
Tirupati ‘darshanam’ tickets and non-judicial stamps to be sold in post offices
soon. Unlike the popular belief that Internet and mobiles have reduced the
usage of Postal Department, personal and business mails were
increasing.
Post
offices will soon begin selling Tirumala-Tirupati ‘darshanam’ tickets and also
non-judicial stamps (stamp papers).
The
Chief Post Master General of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, B.V. Sudhakar, said
the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) has agreed to sell 1,000 tickets
through select post offices in five districts – Chittoor, Vizianagaram,
Warangal, Kurnool and Hyderabad – on a pilot basis.
The
number of tickets may go up to 5,000 per day if the TTD agrees later. Training
of employees for this purpose is on, he said.
With
regard to sale of non-judicial stamps, he said the Telangana government has
accepted the proposals sent to them and non-judicial stamps will be available
across all post offices from December first week onwards. Similar proposals
were also sent to the Andhra Pradesh government and it is likely to give its
nod soon.
Mr.
Sudhakar, who was speaking to the reporters after launching mechanised
clearance of letter boxes here on Wednesday, said the Postal Department was
sending 10.27 lakh Speed Post articles per month in the two States, of which
5.81 lakh were from Hyderabad alone. It was also handling 17.35 lakh Speed Post
deliveries, of which 5.31 lakh were in the city.
Unlike
the popular belief that Internet and mobiles have reduced the usage of Postal
Department, personal and business mails were increasing. Till last year, 16
lakh letters were handled daily while it has increased to 22.24 lakh per day as
per the September 2014 figures, he said.
Mr.
Sudhakar said extreme care was being taken while disbursing money under the
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme. “We
disburse Rs. 1,500 crore under the scheme to the beneficiaries. Biometric
method is being used to ensure genuineness of the person and later the same is
linked to the Aadhar card,” he said, adding that even the social security pensions
to the tune of Rs. 450 to Rs. 500 crore per month were disbursed without any
hassles.
Mechanised
clearance system to ease delivery
Under
the mechanised clearance of letter boxes, mails are cleared through
specially-designed Departmental Mail Motor Services in all the prominent pillar
type post boxes under three postal divisions in the city.
For this
purpose, all these post boxes are segregated into 10 beats. Letters collected
under this system will be brought directly to the Hyderabad sorting office for
onward dispatch to various stations. The mechanised clearance will not only
save time, but also speed up the delivery.
Letters are also being
cleared in selected post boxes under the ‘Nanyatha’ programme. Under this
system, when the letters are cleared, the barcode number kept inside the box is
scanned through a mobile phone using android technology.
The
information is uploaded on the website ‘http://appost.in/nanyatha’ indicating
the time of clearance, number of letters cleared in each box, the person who
has cleared and the location. The scheme helps people to know whether the
letter posted in a particular box was cleared and when. It is available in
Hyderabad and Vijayawada as of now.
Source : http://www.thehindu.com/
