The
total revenue earned by Department
of Posts (DoP) has grown over 11 per cent to about Rs 12,940 crore in
2015-16, Parliament was informed today.
DoP
earned revenue of Rs 10,730.42 crore in 2013-14, which grew to Rs 11,635.98
crore in 2014-15 and further to Rs 12,939.79 crore in 2015-16, Communications
Minister Manoj Sinha said
in a written reply to Rajya Sabha.
Besides
providing purely postal services, post offices perform agency functions
like Saving
Bank, payment of pension, sale of Cash Certificates etc on behalf of other
ministries/ departments, he said adding that the revenue earned is classified
under five major heads.
"There
is an increasing trend in revenue in three major heads -- postage realised in
cash from speed post, registry, business post, parcels etc; commission
from Savings Bank;
and other major receipts," he said.
There
is a decline in two heads of revenue -- sale of stamps and commission on money
orders and Indian Postal Orders etc, he added.
Revenue
from sale of stamps declined from Rs 670.67 crore in 2013-14 to Rs 576.18 crore
in 2014-15 and further fell to Rs 441.75 crore in 2015-16.
Similarly,
commission from money orders and Indian postal orders reduced to Rs 464.84
crore in 2015-16 from Rs 641.98 crore in 2014-15.
Responding
to a separate query, Sinha said DoP has 34,452 male postman and
2,708 female Postman as permanent employees. It has 1,332 male Postman and 287
female Postman as temporary employees.
In
another response, Sinha said the government has planned to set up up to 650
branches of India
Post Payments Bank, co-located at each district headquarter post office by
September this year.
Also,
about 1,000 ATMs are proposed to be established to facilitate the customers of
post office saving bank, he said.
Source:-The
Times of India
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