Ministry of Communications
Postal Department confers Meghdoot awards to
Postal Employees for their achievements in 2019-20
Posted On: 15 DEC 2020
6:04PM by PIB Delhi
Department of Posts conducted Meghdoot Award
Function 2020 on December 15, 2020 in the Conference Hall of MeitY, Electronics
Niketan, CGO Complex, New Delhi. The Function was graced by Shri Ravi Shankar
Prasad, Minister of Communications, Law & Justice and Electronics &
Technology as the Chief Guest and Shri Sanjay Dhotre, Minister of State for
Education, Communications and Electronics & Technology as Guest of Honour.
All the Chief Postmaster Generals and Meghdoot awardees were present in the
function via video conference. The Meghdoot award is given every year for
excellence in postal service. The meghdoot award 2019-20 was given in the
following eight categories:
|
Category |
Category details |
Name &
Designation of official (Sh./Smt./Ms.) |
|
I |
General category for Grameen Dak sevak |
KirtanNayak,
GDS BPM, Mardakote BO, Kodala SO, Ganjam Division, Odisha Circle |
|
II |
General category for all employees at
different levels |
Balakrishna R., Driver Grade – I, MMS, Bengaluru |
|
III |
M D Srinivasan, PA, Chennai City Division & Marketing
coordinator, Regional Office, Chennai City Region, Tamil Nadu Circle |
|
|
IV |
Sarwesh Kumar, SPM, Rajendra Nagar Post Office, Patna, Bihar
Circle |
|
|
V |
Vinay Srivastava, Inspector Posts, Nowgong Sub Division,
Chhattarpur Division, Madhya Pradesh Circle |
|
|
VI |
B S Chandrasekhar, SSPOs, Bengaluru East Division, Karnataka
Circle |
|
|
VII |
Technology Excellence |
V M Shaktivelu, Deputy Director, CEPT, Chennai |
|
VIII |
Best Woman Employee |
Rinchen, Departmental Mail Runner, Hull-Phaldar Line, Rampur
Bhushar Division, Himachal Pradesh Circle |
In a major step towards providing the citizen centric services, a memorandum of Understanding was signed by Department of Posts with CSC e-Governance Services India Limited. This will give a flip to setting a common service centres in more than 10000 Post Offices across the country for providing various G2C (Government to Citizen) and B2C (Business to Citizens) services to citizens in rural and remote areas of the country thus enabling the Government's mandate of a socially, financially and digitally inclusive society.
The B2C (Business to Citizens) Services
offered includes Bharat Bill Payment System Bills (Electric, Gas, Water bills
etc.). The services offered also included Third Party Services such as EMI
(Equal Monthly Instalment) collections for various loans offered by financial
institutions and submission of online application forms for loans. Travel
services such as Ticket booking service would be available for Flight, Train
and Bus Tickets.
Through this agreement, Department of
Posts intends to provide a one-stop solution for all e-Governance services on
assisted model through its "Common Service Centres(PO-CSCs)" in Post
Offices. These "PO-CSCs" will also contribute to ease of living
and ease of business to the nearby digitally deprived rural and semi-urban
population by leveraging the strengths of its network, digitally skilled
manpower in synergy with digital services of CSC e-Governance Services India
Limited.
In today’s function DakPay logo was launched
by India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) of India Post as part of its ongoing efforts
to provide Digital Financial inclusion at the last mile.
DakPay is a suite of digital financial and
assisted banking services provided by India Post & IPPB through the trusted
Postal (‘Dak’) network across the nation to cater to the financial needs
(‘Pay’) of various sections of the society – be it sending money to the loved
ones (Domestic Money Transfers – DMT), making payment for services/merchants digitally
(Virtual debit card) & UPI, enabling cashless ecosystem through biometrics,
providing interoperable banking services to the customers of ANY BANK (AePS)
and Utility Bill Payment services.
DakPay UPI app allows users to create UPI ID
and link multiple accounts across banks in a single mobile app. The app
facilitates instant money transfers, QR based payments in merchant stores and
online shopping on e-commerce websites.
Department of Posts also launched an eBook
named “India Post meets Covid-19 Challenge” encapsulating the challenges faced
and the solutions offered by India Post in the delivery of essential services
to the remotest corner of the country during the ongoing pandemic in the
country.
Addressing the function, the MOC congratulated
the Awardees for the good work and exhorted the Department to strive and scale
new heights. The union Minister expressed satisfaction at the rapid expansion
of CSCs across the country and hoped that with the partnership of DOP and
CSC-SPV this expansion would be escalated further and will help in delivering a
number of citizen centric services across the country. The Minister hailed the
launch of DakPay app as an important step in Digital Revolution and hoped that
it will become an effective payment platform in competition with the best in
the market. He expressed that just as AePS has brought banking services to the
door step the DakPay will go a step further in providing ease of payment for
various e-commerce and business activities. The Hon’ble Minister appreciated
the good work done by the DOP in Covid-19 times and felt the DOP stood up the
test. The welcome address was given by Secretary (Posts), Pradipta Kumar Bisoi
and vote of thanks was proposed by Director General, Postal Services, Vineet
Pandey.
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