Post offices across the country will be online integrated into a single network
Post
offices across the country will be online integrated into a single network,
Union Minister of State for Communications and IT Killi Kruparani said on
Sunday. “Post offices have more account holders than banks and more
customer-friendly services are in the offing”, she said, at the foundation
stone ceremony for a modern post office at Kukatpally.
The new post office is being constructed at a cost of Rs.2 crore
and will be one of the hubs for the ‘Logistic Post service’. The Minister
explained that under ‘Project Arrow’ 149 post offices were modernised in the
State and another 48 were in the pipeline while Aadhaar-enabled pension
disbursement and other monitory benefits would also be taken up.
Around 1,000
POs across the country would be equipped with ATMs along with GIS maps and the
Mobile Money Order facility would be introduced in October, Ms. Kruparani said.
An ultra modern Automated Mail Processing Centre will be inaugurated at
Shamshabad soon. She also said that more post-offices would be built through
PPP model. LSP chief Jayaprakash Narayan, Chief Postmaster General Karuna
Pillai and Director of Postal Services Mariamma Thomas were present.
Source:-The
Hindu
