During the 2-day event, discussions will focus around the challenges being faced by India Post in the 21sth Century. India Post is faced with the twin challenges of induction of various modes of technology in communication and also the proliferation of couriers on the other.
The organization has geared itself to assimilate technology in its operations in a big way. It has also embarked upon the path of providing quality postal services to its customers. The Speed Post is already a brand to reckon with. Other initiatives like introduction of Core Banking Solutions in the Post Office Savings Bank, expansion of Postal Life Insurance and streamlining of the parcel service area also on the anvil. Apart from this, India Post is preparing itself to have a vast technological network to connect all the rural Post Offices. The organization hopes
to be a reliable partner for various Government Departments for
delivery of their services in the villages where no other network has
the kind of reach which India Post has got.
Training
of the Postal Staff to adapt itself to the use of technology in a big
way is also a major challenge. Plans are being worked out by India Post
to provide adequate training to all its personnel in use of technology. This is going to be the thrust area in the next couple of years.
India Post has a vast network of 1,54,866 post offices in the country. It handles over six billion articles of mail every year with the help of nearly half a million employees. India Post also runs Post Offices Savings Bank (POSB). Apart from offering various saving scheme, to the common man, POSB also disburses Mahatma Gandhi National
Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme( MGNREGS) wages. It has 5.4 crore
accounts which disbursed Rs. 7430 crore as MGNREGS wages during 2011-12.
Source PIB Release 7th May, 2012
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