Dear Comrades,
The
significant events pertaining to Department of Posts(DoP) for the month May, 2012 include disbursal of wages amounting to Rs. 933 crores to
5.62 crores MGNREGS account holders across the
country except in Bihar, Haryana and M.P.Circles During April 2012.
2.
The following stamps were issued in the month of May 2012 :
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S.No.
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Name of Stamps
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Date of issue
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1.
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Karpoor Chandra ‘Kulish’
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16.05.2012
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2.
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M.B.
Kadai
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17.05.2012
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3.
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800th
URS. Dargah Sharif, Ajmer
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27.05.2012
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3. As
part of IT
project (Information Technology Project), the
Department of Posts plans to provide a Postal Core Banking solution in major Post Offices for the Post
Office Savings Bank Customers. A
comprehensive overhaul of the remittance service delivery is also planned
taking into account the changing customer preferences and expectations of
improved service delivery. The vendor for the implementation of the above i.e.
Financial Service Solution Integrator (FSI) has been selected and the Letter of
Intent has been issued. The contract is under finalization and it is expected
to be finalized in the month of June 2012.
4. Implementation
Report on the recommendations of 15th Report of Standing Committee
Communications & IT captioned ‘Modernisation of
Post Offices has been laid on the Table of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabja on 16.05.2012 & 18.05.2012 respectively by Hon’ble Minister of State for Communications & IT along
with a statement.
5. Till Apriil
30, 2012., 24969 departmental post offices have been computerized. This
comprises 99.69% of all the departmental post offices in the country.
6. The
Department has signed an agreement with BSNL for providing money remittance
through mobile phones. BSNL has been
provided with the requirements of DoP for development
of the software. Initially a pilot of
the service will run for a period of 6 months in Punjab, Bihar, Delhi and
Kerala Circles. The rollout of the pilot
is expected in August-September 2012.
7. Postal
Joint Council of Action (PJCA) comprising National Federation of Postal
Employees (NFPE) and Federation of National Postal Organization (FNPO) threatened
to observe one day hunger fast on 21.5.2012 (from 10.00 AM to 05.00PM) in front
of the Dak Bhawan as well
as all CPMsG (Chief Post Masters General) Offices. The Department took all necessary
measures against the proposed agitation.
As a result of Department’s efforts, the PJCA was dissuaded from their
agitation programme and resorted to attend a meeting
taken by Secretary (P) on that date at 11 AM. The work continued smoothly and the agitation programme was called off.
8. An
agreement was signed with a reputed consultancy firm (selected through a
transparent tendering process) on 17.05.2012 to formulate recommendations on an
appropriate business structure for the emerging and premium services of DoP.
9. MoU was signed with LBS Centre for Science and Technology, Thiruvanthapuram for sale of application of SET 2012(State
Eligibility Test 2012) through Post Offices across Kerala.
10. Action for a tie –up with Kerala
Medical Science Cooperation Ltd. initiated
for supply of their medicines and equipments through logistics Post
across Kerala.
*****
BK/AT
(Release ID :85124)
