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 ‘AamAadmi’.
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.
