Department of Posts
Contributing to the financial inclusion of the rural people:
(A) Wage disbursal under Mahatma Gandhi National Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA): Extensive
rural postal network of the country is actively engaged in disbursal of
wages of MGNREGA with high levels of efficiency. During the year
2012-13 the Post Offices disbursed about Rs 9,133 crore by October, 2012
through about 5.53 crore savings accounts of MGNREGA workers standing
in the Post Offices. Thus, the Department of Posts significantly
contributed towards the success of this unique social security
arrangement of unprecedented scale.
(B) Financial Inclusion of Below Poverty Line (BPL Household: Department
of Posts leveraged its network and outreach to financially include BPL
households by targeting them for opening their savings accounts in the
Post Offices and thus providing them with access to savings services.
During the Year 2012-13 more than 1.53 crore households were financially
included through this initiative by October, 2012.
Introduction of e-enabled services
(A) 24,969 Departmental post offices have been computerized as on date
(B) India
Post has introduced Remotely Managed Franking System in place of
existing electronic Franking Machines. Around 5681 RMFS machines have
been licensed and activated as on date.
(C) e-Post
office Portal was commissioned during 2011. During the current year PLI
premia payment has also been added apart from sale of philatelic
material.
International Remittance services
Recognizing
the spurt in the volumes of international remittances into India in the
recent years and the notable contribution of remittance inflows to the
country’s economy, the Department of Posts has taken a project to revamp
its international money order services. Currently, DoP provides
electronic money remittance services on two platforms, viz. the IFS
(developed by the Universal Postal Union) and Eurogiro. The following
action has been completed in this regard:
- Setting up an International Remittances Unit (IRU) at CEPT, Mysore.
- Starting the inward international money order transactions from France on 22 November, 2012.
Expansion of Clientele Base of Postal Life Insurance(PLI)
In order to provide
insurance coverage to persons of various organizations which were
earlier out of purview of PLI schemes and to scale up business revenues
employees of following organizations have also been brought under PLI
scheme w.e.f. 18.10.2012:
(i) Joint ventures having Govt/PSU stake
(ii) Credit Co-operative Societies registered under Co-operative Societies Act
(iii) Scheduled Commercial Banks
(iv) Deemed Universities and Educational Institutions accredited by recognized bodies i.e. AICTE, MCI, NAAC etc.
“Sampoorna Jeevan Bima Gram” and “Sampoona Bima Sangathan”
For better
insurance coverage of eligible population, a targeted approach to cover
villagers under RPLI and organizations under PLI has been started from
November 2012 as under:-
(i) to
identify and cover minimum 75% of employees of 20 organizations up to
31.10.2012 and 30 organisations/units up to 31.10.2012 as “Sampoorna
Jeevan Bima Sangthan/Unit” under Postal Life Insurance;
(ii) To
identify and cover 1000 villages up to 31.10.2012 and 2000 villages up
to 31.03.2013, as “Sampoorna Jeevan Bima Gram” wherein at least one
member of each house hold is to be enrolled under Rural Postal Life
Insurance.
Financial Services
The Department
successfully completed the vendor selection for its Financial System
Integration project. The vendor selected was M/s Infosys who will be
involved with the Core Banking solution and setting up of ATMs for the
Department. The project has started on 28th September 2012.
UIDAI Aadhar letters:
Department of Posts is
working as Register with UIDAI for providing Aadhar enrolments through
Post Offices for phase-II operations also. A total of 80,84, 181
successful enrolments have been completed.
ePost:
New and enhanced version of ePost software has been launched on 12th December
2012. The enhanced version will have facility of sending multilingual
messages apart from sending PDF files as attachment. During the year
2012 (upto Nov 2012), 13.64 lakh messages have been sent and Rs 104.50
lakhs earned as revenue.
Sale of Gold Coins:
Under retail post, India
Post sells 24 carat gold coins of the denomination of 0.5 g, 1g, 5g, 8g,
10g, 20g and 50g through selected Post Offices. During the year 2012
(upto Nov 2012), 708 kg of gold coins were sold and Rs 10.99 crores
earned as revenue.
Project Management Unit
The Government
has approved the IT Modernization Project of the Department of Posts
for computerization of all the non-computerized post offices, Mail
Offices, Administrative and other offices, establishment of required IT
infrastructure, development of required software applications. IT
modernization Project – India Post will enable Department to enhance and
provide value additions to Mail, Savings Bank and Insurance, customer
service while providing a platform to launch new initiatives and provide
new rural services.
Money remittance through Mobile phone service:
An
agreement has been signed with BSNL for providing money remittance
through mobile phones. This is joint endeavor of Department of Posts
& BSNL. BSNL has been provided with the requirements of DOP for
development of the software. This service specially tailored for those
who have a need to remit money regularly up to a sum of Rs 10,000. Under
the Scheme, a remitter can go to any Post Office in the Circle enabled
for the Mobile Money Transfer Service and remit an amount from Rs 1000/-
to Rs 10,000/- to be paid to another mobile subscriber at the
designated Post Office. The Slabs for money transfer is as follows:
Slabs
|
Charges of Remittance
|
Rs 1000 to 1500
|
Rs 40
|
Rs 1501 to 5000
|
Rs 70
|
Rs 5001 to 10,000
|
Rs 100
|
The service initially has been launched on 15th November
2012 in four Circles viz. Kerala, Bihar, Delhi and Punjab and this
service is provided in 18 selected Post Offices in each Circle.
Source:-PIB
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