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Department of Posts
e-Infrastructure & Release of commemorative postage stamps on 100 years of
Mahatma Gandhi’s return to India by the hon’ble P.M.
e-Governance
Financial Inclusion through
• This pan India project covering 1,55,000 post offices, New Schemes
including about 1,30,000 post offices in rural India is
aimed at creating an IT infrastructure than can be • Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana was launched by the
used by both public as well as private sector, Hon’ble Prime Minister on 22nd January, 2015. Within
especially in the rural areas. a short span of time, 43 lakh accounts have been
opened in post offices. The total amount deposited
• Biometric, solar charged, mobile hand held devices in the accounts is approximately `.562 crores.
with wireless connectivity are being supplied to
about 1,30,000 rural post offices. IT Application for • Kisan Vikas Patra (KVP) scheme was re-launched on
these Mobile devices is under development and 18th November, 2014. Within a span of six months 28
shall facilitate Postal and other Government lakh KVP certificates have been sold through Post
(Common Service Centre) services to the rural Offices with a total investment of `2,549 Crores.
customers.
• 27,215 Post Offices, Mail offices, Accounts offices,
Administrative offices and Store depots have been
networked in a country-wide WAN. This makes it the
largest single organisation WAN in the country.
• 2590 Post Offices across the country having `14.55
crore accounts and savings certificates and a
deposit of `2,28,505 crore have been migrated to
Core Banking Solution (CBS). 115 aATMs have been
installed.
• Core Insurance Solution for providing the facility to
deposit policy premium in any Post Office and
online automated claims management and online
renewal notices, faster claim settlement and
improved after sales service has been rolled out in
12,102 Post Offices.
• A mobile app has been launched for providing track
& trace for mails and parcels, pincode and post
office search, Saving schemes information and
calculation of maturity value etc.
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