The first Mahila Dak Ghar – a post office entirely operated by women staff was inaugurated today by Ms. P Gopinath, Secretary, Post and Chairperson, Postal Services Board, Government of India, in Mumbai.
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This Post Office is located at New Customs House on the Shaheed Bhagat Singh Road in the busy office area of South Mumbai, in close proximity of the Collectorate, Old Customs House, Asiatic Library and RBI.
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The office, which will be open from 10 am to 6 pm, offers both traditional and modern postal services like booking of all registered and speed post articles, e-Money Order, Western Union Money Transfer, e-payment of utility bills of MTNL, BEST And Mahanagar Gas Ltd, besides the Post Office Savings Bank transactions.
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As of now, 12 female employees will run the Mahila Dak Ghar, headed by a Senior Superintendent of Posts.
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Currently, the Maharashtra Postal Circle has a total staff strength of 26,468, out of which 5,008 are women. “As a mark of respect to the women of Maharashtra, we decided to launch the first Mahila Dak Ghar in this circle in Mumbai “ said Col. K C Mishra, Chief Post Master General, Maharashtra and Goa Circle.
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Earlier this year, on the occasion of the International Women’s Day on March 8, Union Minister for Communication & IT, Kapil Sibal had inaugurated the first all-women post office in the country in New Delhi.
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At the time, Mr Sibal had announced that more such offices would be opened in the country, especially in the metro cities. The new office in Mumbai is part of the same initiative.
Source : http://pibmumbai.gov.in/scripts/detail.asp?release Id=E2013PR524
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Saturday, April 13, 2013
Mumbai gets its first Mahila Dak Ghar
NFPE FEDERAL SECRETARIAT MEETING ON 26th APRIL-2013
It is hereby notified that the Federal Secretariat meeting of NFPE will be held on 26th April, 2013(from 11 A.M.) at Guwahati (Assam).
All General Secretaries and available office bearers are requested to attend the meeting in time. The following will be the agenda for the meeting:
AGENDA
(i) Organizational review.
(ii) Federal Council.
(iv) Any other items, if any with the permission of the Chair.
(M. Krishnan)
Secretary General
Thursday, April 11, 2013
DA – LATEST POSITION
The
D. A. proposal is pending clearance of cabinet. PM is reaching Delhi on 12th.
We expect it to be cleared by Tuesday next.
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Monday, April 8, 2013
Friday, April 5, 2013
Coming soon: ATMs, Internet banking at post offices
There is a good news for around 200 million
post office saving bank (POSB) account holders.
The Department of Posts (DOP) has launched a project to provide account holders with ATM facility. Under the project, all post offices throughout the country will be connected through an IT network.
The Department of Posts (DOP) has launched a project to provide account holders with ATM facility. Under the project, all post offices throughout the country will be connected through an IT network.
Besides,
account holders will also be able to avail Internet banking facilities.
“We will connect the network of 1.55 lakh post offices that
includes 1.2 lakh in rural areas,” said Kavery Banerjee, member, technology,
postal services board. “Our central data centre is ready and vendors are
developing customised banking service solutions.”
POSB operates small savings schemes on behalf of the ministry of
finance and has over 260 million account holders, out of which about 200
million are saving and recurring deposit account holders. Total outstanding
balance under all accounts in the POSB stood at around Rs.3,96,664 crore as on March 2012.
At present, an account holder has to go to a post office during
office hours to withdraw money. Moreover, there is no facility of electronic
transfer of money to a third-party account.
“Once customers are provided with the ATM facility, they will be
able to withdraw money from any ATM, including that provided by banks,” said
Banerjee.
Customers will, however, have to wait for more than a year to
avail the ATM facility. POSB will start implementing core banking solution in
limited number of post offices by the end of this year. Next year, it will be
implemented in large number of post offices once the system is perfect.
For rural post offices, the department will provide handheld devices
that will enable one to perform all banking operations.
Courtesy: Hindustan
Times, 06.04.2013
DBT funds in post offices soon
Racing
against time to make the ambitious Direct Benefits Transfer (DBT) visibly
effective before the 2014 general elections, the government will bring money
transaction through post offices under the DBT ambit. This desperate move is
aimed as a remedy to banks opening accounts of DBT beneficiaries at snail’s
pace.
Ahead of the Prime Minister’s review meeting with key ministers,
the government announced that post offices will also be included from October 1
while three pension schemes — for old age persons, widows and the disabled —
would now be covered under DBT from July 1. The list would also include
districts where the beneficiaries’ biometrics were collected under the National
Population Register (NPR). They include Odisha, West Bengal, UP, Uttarakhand,
Bihar and Chhattisgarh.
Several complaints had poured in after the scheme was launched
from January 1 about the problems of the banks to open zero-balance accounts of
the beneficiaries, especially in rural areas.
The government also targets to expand the DBT to cover 78 more
districts in the next phase of the DBT rollout which will begin from July 1.
To plug the loopholes, PM’s focus will be on digitisation of databases
and opening of more bank accounts. “There will be a thrust on digitisation of
data of beneficiaries in all districts, irrespective of the rollout of DBT as
this is a critical activity which need not wait and can be done in parallel,”
said a press release.
“The department of
financial services will be asked to ensure coverage of all beneficiaries with
bank accounts. It will ensure that all Micro-ATMs that are procured will have
specifications such that they are inter-operable and are Aadhaar enabled,” the
release added.
Courtesy: Hindustan Times, 06.04.2013
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