Dear Comrades,
The state of the art Data Centre of Department of
Posts has been inaugurated by the Minister of Communications & IT
and Law & Justice, Kapil Sibal, at Dhirubhai Ambani Knowledge City
(DAKC), Navi Mumbai last week.
The Data Centre provides a facility to host Department's servers and
manage its data infrastructure centrally, thus enabling all the post
office service solutions to be operated through one large network.
These solutions hosted on the Data Center will be accessed by all
post offices across India for carrying out daily transactions. Details
of these transactions carried out by different post offices will be
available in the Data Center on almost a real time basis and the
information could be accessed across the network through secure
mechanism.
Availability of centralized information along with core banking
facility will enable customers with anytime and anywhere access to their
savings bank accounts and insurance policies through any post office
counter, ATM, e-banking portal through mobile or internet. It will make
deposit and withdrawal of money, payment of insurance premium easy and
flexible for the common man.
Wage disbursement and pension payments for the different Government
schemes will be made with greater speed, efficiency and reliability and
the visibility of the transactions will ensure greater transparency in
these citizen benefit schemes.
Availability of real time integrated information will also offer
increased consistency and reliability in mail, parcels and logistics
delivery system in line with global standards, resulting in better
public service to the people.
The Data Center is one of the many initiatives which have been
undertaken by the Department of Posts as part of the IT Project which
aims at:
- Modernization and computerization of all Post offices in the country
- Development of software applications covering all operations of the Department -Mail Operations, Postal Banking, Insurance, Finance and HR
- Establishment of IT Infrastructure - Data center, Wide Area Network (WAN) based networking of the departmental post offices
- Deployment of Rural Information Communication Technology (Rural ICT) infrastructure in all 1,30,000 rural post office.