The
Government has planned to open 81 Sub-Post Offices and 100 Branch Post Offices
during the current financial year 2017-18 under the Scheme – “Rural Business
& Access to Postal Network”. Minister of Communications Shri Manoj Sinha
said in a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha today that the
Department of Posts has also planned to open 66 Branch Post Offices by creation
of new posts in 32 worst affected Left Wing Extremism (LWE) districts in the
country under the aforesaid scheme in the current financial year.
Shri
Sinha informed that out of 25,350 post offices in the States of the Country,
25,348 are computerised. He said that the Department of Posts takes action,
from time to time, to induct technology and upgrade the system to cater to the
growing market requirements and to increase revenue earnings. The Minister said
that the increase or revision of rates of postal products and services is an
ongoing exercise carried out from time to time and that there is no proposal to
increase the rates of premium Business Development products at present...PIB
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