Dear Comrades,
Vellore MP Abdul Rahman inaugurated a modernised sub-post office at
Sathuvachari on Friday and appealed to the public to extend support and
patronage to the time-tested postal services.
Describing ‘Project
Arrow’, aimed at providing post offices a modern look, customer care and
state-of-the-art facilities for staffers - as a ‘long term vision of
the government,’ Rahman said the Indian postal services has been hailed
as the best in world and would win more accolades in the days to come.
He said, in contrast to other countries, where people had to pick up
mails dumped in the mail box outside their homes, Indian postmen visited
houses and delivered the mails in person.”
The 200-year tradition
of service was strengthened with the introduction of modern technology,
Rahman noted. As a member of the standing committee in Parliament on IT
and postal services, he found the postal officials straightforward and
polite.
Banking by year end
On the
sidelines of the inauguration ceremony, chief post master general (Tamil
Nadu circle), Shanthi Nair, said, as part of the information technology
plan, core banking solutions (CBS) would be provided by post offices in
the State by the end of the year.
She said testing of the
software (developed in-house), to be used by the post offices, was in
process and the Chennai circle would be piloting the CBS project in the
first phase. Tamil Nadu is one of the six States where this scheme was
being piloted, she added. CBS would be introduced in 23 head post
offices and one sub-post office in Rasipuram in the State, along with an
onsite ATM facility. Soon the department would roll out mobile
applications to support the CBS activities. Hand held devices would be
provided to postmen attached to 100 branch offices in the rural areas,
to undertake all postal transactions that would be networked with the
central server established in Mumbai, Nair said. The data recovery
centre for the central server had been established at Mysore, she added.
TN
had emerged as the first State in the country to have computerized all
its departmental post offices by . April this year, she added.
Nair
said the department was focusing on developing the logistics in a big
way. She said three warehouses had already been established in Chennai
at Iyyanavaram, Mylapore and Ikkaduthangal in this regard. Plans were
afoot to establish warehouses in Tiruchy and Salem shortly. The
department was providing this facility to the Railway Recruitment Board,
for transporting bulk papers, stationary and other materials.
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