Visakhapatnam:
The first all-women post office (Mahila Dak Ghar) in Andhra Pradesh has come up in this port city.
The post office in MVP Colony area was on Saturday inaugurated by Union Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology Killi Kruparani.
Speaking on the occasion, she said the initiative was part of the UPA Government’s focus on women empowerment, safety and gender equality. “Four all-women post offices will be soon opened at Narayanaguda, Vivekanandanagar, Andhra Mahila Sabha and Vidyanagar in Hyderabad, the Minister said.
Hyderabad’s main post office in Shamsabad will soon have an Automated Mail Processing Centre. Once the centre becomes operational, no documentation will be required with respect to sorting, dispatching and delivering of mails, the Minister said.
The all-women post office will be manned by a team of six staffers. It will offer traditional and modern services like registered and speed post, e-money order, Western Union money transfer, e-payment of utility bills besides savings bank facilities.
Post offices set for major revamp, says Minister
The Centre is focusing on modernisation of post offices in the country to improve service delivery and enable them to compete with courier companies, Union Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology Killi Kruparani said on Saturday.
The Department of Posts has sanctioned Rs 4,700 crore for modernisation of 1.55 lakh post offices, she said here. Under the project, a provision of Rs 1,500 crore has been made to install computers in rural post offices, Kruparani said.
To overcome the delay in providing services, the Union Government has embarked on a massive drive to upgrade postal infrastructure, Kruparani said. She said all the post offices in the country will be soon providing online services.
“In the coming days, their will be more such post offices across the country for the convenience of women. The Centre intends to open Mahila Dak Ghars in every metropolitan city and big towns, especially where there is sizeable population of working women, Kruparani said.
source: http://www.deccanchronicle.com / Deccan Chronicle / Home> News> Current Affairs / by PTI / June 01dt, 2013