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Videos of the Round Table on National Postal Policy held on 01-02-2012 under the chairmanship of Hon'ble MOC & IT

தபால் துறை மூலமாக சொத்து வரி

 தபால் துறை மூலமாக சொத்து வரி வசூலிக்க அஞ்சல் துறை அதிகாரிகளுடன் பேசி வருவதாக கோயம்புத்தூர் மாநகராட்சி  கமிஷனர் தெரிவித்துள்ளார் . இந்து பத்திரிகையில் வந்த செய்தியை கீழே தந்துள்ளோம்

The civic body is in talks with India Post officials

If all goes well, property tax assessees in Coimbatore Corporation will be able to pay the tax, water charges and other dues at post offices.

The civic body was in talks with India Post officials after the latter came forward with a proposal in this regard, said Commissioner T.K. Ponnusamy. Mr. Ponnusamy made the remark after Ward 86 Councillor A. Sadiq Ali demanded mobile tax collection centres to facilitate easy payment. This was at Monday's Council meeting.

At present, the Corporation has 13 tax collection centres and counters at 39 bank branches in the city.

It also offers tax payment using debit cards and through e-banking. The last two were part of the Corporation's e-governance initiatives.

Mr. Ponnusamy also told the Councillors that he had not yet discussed the proposal with Mayor S.M. Velusamy and only after they arrive at a decision would the Corporation move ahead and forge a deal.

On Tuesday, he told The Hindu that Deputy Commissioner S. Sivarasu was seized of the issue and negotiating with the officials. The negotiations were about India Post officials placing a demand of Rs. 10 for tax collected for each assessment.

Assessments

Mr. Ponnusamy said this was unacceptable to the Corporation because for many assessments the tax assessed did not exceed Rs. 50.

This was most true of thatched-roofed, tile-roofed houses and those in slums and lower income group localities.

The civic body could accept if the India Post officials were to demand the sum for assessments of higher value.

He also reasoned that the India Post officials could gain from the interest levied for current accounts, into which they would keep the money collected on behalf of the Corporation.

If the Corporation were to sew up an alliance, it would be yet another milestone in tax collection. 

Courtesy THE HINDU

  

அஞ்சலகங்களில் சூரிய சக்தியில் ஒளிரும் விளக்குகள் விற்பனை

சென்னை  மண்டலத்தில்   அஞ்சலகங்களில் சூரிய சக்தியில் ஒளிரும் விளக்குகள் விற்பனை செய்யப் பட்டு வருகிறது . அது குறித்து சென்னை மண்டல பி.எம்.ஜி. திரு இராமானுஜம் அவர்கள் டைம்ஸ் ஆப்  இந்தியா பத்திரிக்கைக்கு அளித்த பேட்டி (SOLAR LAMPS) கீழே தந்துள்ளோம்

CHENNAI: Looking for an eco-friendly solar lamp to tide over the power cuts? You might be able to pick up one at your neighbourhood post office. The Chennai circle of India Post is selling solar lamps through 19 post offices across Tamil Nadu to give a fillip to its retail post initiative.

"The demand has been on the rise so we will make the lamps available in other post offices too," says M S Ramanujan, postmaster general. The department started selling solar lamps in Chengalpet from September 2011. In February, post offices in Vellore and Kanchipuram started selling the lamps to cover areas such as Madurantakam, Tiruporur, Uttiramerur, Sriperumbudur, Tiruvallur, Tiruttani, and Sathuvacheri.

"In the last month nearly 1,000 lamps were sold by the new centres," says an official. The demand is probably driven by the daily power cuts across the state.

The department sells three kinds of lamps with LED lights and integrated solar panels that can be charged in the sun. The prices range from Rs 399 to Rs 1,699, and come with high and low settings or a facility to charge mobile phones, depending on the model. "Once the lamps are fully charged they can be used for four to eight hours," says Ramanujan.

The department decided to sell solar lamps after successfully retailing gold coins and university application forms, and opening counters to accept utility bills. "We were forced to look at various options after the internet and other forms of communication eroded our traditional mail base," he says.

After a solar lamp manufacturer approached the department, it decided to start selling the lamps in rural areas. "Our biggest advantage is our network, especially in rural areas. The demand has gone up with power cuts and the beginning of the exam season," says Ramanujan.

To cater to the demand, the department has placed orders with a few more companies. However, supply is not sufficient to meet the rising demand. "Every household needs at least two lamps and that is tough to meet," he says. 

Coutresy: The Times of India

எப்படி இருந்த அஞ்சல் துறை இப்படி ஆயிருச்சே .. ஒரு சாமன்யனின் புலம்பல்

எப்படி இருந்த அஞ்சல் துறை இப்படி ஆயிருச்சே என்கிற ஒருசாமன்யனின் புலம்பலாக படிக்கவும் .சரி செய்யும் முயற்சிகளை மேற்கொள்ளுமா ? அரசும் இலாகாவும் !!. 

அவரின் புலம்பலை கீழே படியுங்கள்

Why I miss the postman ---  Mahesh Vijapurkar laments the decline of Indian Post.

Fifty years ago, my granduncle would drop a post card into the neighbourhood post box in Chennai's Thyagarajanagar after his afternoon coffee. Next morning by 9 am it would announce to my grandmother in Egmore in the same city some 10 kms away that he was coming for lunch that day. Both of them had no telephones but communicated excellently using what was generally called 'the card'.

During the late 1960s, a dear classmate of mine had shifted to Bangalore to avoid wasting his time waiting for colleges to reopen if the Telangana [ Images ] agitation simmered down -- it did after about a year, to resurface periodically as it did now -- but kept in touch. He would mail an inland letter on a Monday reaching me in Secunderabad on Tuesday. The reply would be with him the next noon. It was, in those days, almost in real time.

But sadly, things have changed. The other day, a Diwali [ Images ] greeting card from the Speaker of Maharashtra [ Images ] legislature, posted at the Mantralaya post office in South Mumbai [ Images ], cheek by jowl to the state secretariat – set up there to facilitate handling of government 'tapal' reached me in Thane on November 5, taking all of 19 days to arrive. This is not an exception. The feedback forms that Maruti [ Get Quote ] mails, for instance, from Gurgaon, often arrives a month later. Some don't.

Multiple flight connections between cities, faster trains, speedier vans and even technology to sort letters seem to have failed to reach letter quickly to their destinations. And yet the post card gets lost or crawls. Delivering a letter within two days is apparently the lost art with the India [ Images ] Post. It is all very well to blame the email and the cell phone with its text messaging but there are more literate, more poor people who need that; the courier is beyond them.

So much so, the famed dakiya -- the postman -- in his khakhi uniform that included a cap, trudging from door to door, street after street, is almost a missing feature of many a place. All he brings is company documents, about shareholder meetings, annual reports, and the occasional greeting card. In my building with 80 apartments, he is seen perhaps once a week. Not that he is AWOL but because he does not enough to deliver.

His place has been taken by the private couriers who seem to be prompt, give you a proof of delivery though such PoD takes time in arriving. He replaced the postman because on a call, the courier boy also picks up the letters for me as he does for most others. He is as ubiquitous as the postman once was. The call on the intercom from the security downstairs is about the courier, seldom the postman.

This despite the best efforts of India Post to thwart the growth of the courier industry which said delivery of letters was its monopoly and the courier industry, growing faster than the India Post circumvented this by claiming they were not delivering letters but documents. This subterfuge worked and India Post has been languishing. It is under the assumption that advertising can replace the lure of efficiency and bring the custom back.

That is unlikely for several reasons. In an increasingly urbanising India, where cities are growing both by population and spread, new post offices are unheard of. The postman has to walk longer, climb higher and have lesser documents than he did perhaps a decade ago; it is just as if we have learnt to live without the India Post. Even post boxes appear so rare. When have you heard of a post box being installed anywhere? If it were, it would be breaking news!

Alright, because urban India is becoming increasingly dependent on courier services therefore rural India is better served? Unlikely because rural first generation migrants to Mumbai's metropolitan region tell me that they don't like to send money back home by money order because it reaches the addressee late, often by a month and more.

They suspect that instead of being delivered, the recipient post office personnel may be 'rotating' the money for benefit. They complain that sending it as insured parcel is expensive. They prefer the bank route -- deposit, send a text message and it is withdrawn in the next hour.

That this should have happened to India Post, established as 'Company Dawk' by East india Company, which saw the first post office open 1688 to carry its official letters which also saw the world's -- yes, world's -- first airmail flight in 1911, is sad. It has now been forced to look to non-postal business to stay afloat though like the Indian Railways, it had knit and held the country together. The postal system is not holding together.

நன்றி -- ரெடிஃப் நியூஸ்

'Post Office on Wheels'  takes the road

PUNE: The Department of Posts on Tuesday introduced the 'Post Office on Wheels' project in the city, with the aim to bring the facilities offered by the India Post closer to citizens. As part of the project, a well-equipped van will run through various parts of the city on daily basis offering on-the-spot services. Pune is the first city in the state to run this project.

The van, introduced on Tuesday will cover the West region of the city. The department has plans to expand the services in remaining parts of the city with the introduction of another van in near future.

"The project will benefit senior citizens, housewives as well as the corporates who find it difficult to visit post offices during working hours. The van will now take postal services to the customers," said K C Mishra, postmaster general, Pune region, after inaugurating the project on Tuesday.

The van was flagged off at the hands of Dada J P Vaswani of the Sadhu Vaswani Mission.

Mishra said the van is authorised to handle all types of postal business, including various e-enabled services, opening of new post office saving account, issue of certificates, sale of postcards, sale of postal life insurance, sale of UTI products and all other postal services other than speed post. It is fully equipped, full-fledged computerised post office with all required software and hardware, coupled with UPS and generator backup.

The van will work between 8 am and 8 pm daily and will cover around 30 locations in a week. It will stop at each location for about two hours. A dedicated team of postal staff is deployed to handle the operations.

The van will be at Dhankawadi, Ambegaon, Dattanagar and Satara Road areas on Wednesday. On Thursday, it will be at DP Road and Aundh areas. On Friday, it will visit Baner and Balewadi areas and on Saturday, it will travel in Kothrud and Warje areas. The van will mainly cover residential areas and societies. It will travel to around 30 spots in these areas.

24-hour speed post services

Two post offices in the city - Pune railway stations and the GPO - now offer speed post services for 24 hours, K C Mishra, postmaster general, Pune region, said. Earlier, the service was available only at the Pune railway station. The services are being extended mainly for the benefit of IT professionals, students, and office goers, Mishra said.   ----- நன்றி --- டைம்ஸ் ஆப்இந்தியா 

Bill for revamping India Post soon: Siba

Bill for revamping India Post soon: Sibal

New Delhi : A bill for revamping the postal department, which includes opening up some segments to private players, will be introduced in parliament soon, Communications and IT Minister Kapil Sibal said Thursday.

The bill also aims at registration of couriers by an independent registration authority, Sibal said while addressing the Economic Editors Conference here.

The minister added that a detailed project report on the setting up of a Postal Bank of India will be finalised in the next six months.

"This will enable India Post to extend micro credit and other loans through vast network of 1.55 lakh post offices, coupled with other financial services like micro-remittance, micro-insurance and micro-pensions," he said.

The revamped postal network will boast of over 1.55 lakh computerised post offices, banking services through post offices with ATM facility and delivery of  banking, insurance and mailing services in rural areas through hand-held devices.

Indian Post Office Act to be amended soon to enable post offices to offer regular banking services and sell insurance.

The Department of Posts (DoP) could soon find itself competing with the likes of the State Bank of India and HDFC Bank as the government will soon make amendments to the 'The Indian Post Office Act, 1898' paving the way for the former to offer banking and insurance services.

According to reports, the draft amendment bill to make necessary changes in 'The Indian Post Office Act, 1898' has been circulated by the DoP for enabling post offices to enter banking and insurance sector. The Planning Commission is currently vetting the proposal to convert post offices across the country into full fledged banks and provide insurance service.

Sources say that the government wants to give a completely new dimension to the way post offices conduct business in the country and the proposed bill could prove to be a definitive step towards that goal. The same was conveyed by the telecom minster Kapil Sibal recently when he had said that the government wants to commercialize the department and will soon seek a license from the central bank to convert post offices into banks.

With nearly 1.5 lakh post offices spread across India, the DoP has one of the largest branch networks in the country. Once in place, the change could allow it to tap into its vast geographic reach and extend modern banking services to masses, especially those living in the hinterlands.

While the DoP has continued to diversify its services portfolio with time—extending its set of services to include everything from financial services like savings bank, postal life insurance, pension payments, money transfer services, rail reservation and telephone recharge coupons—the move to offer full fledged banking and insurance services could prove to be a significant milestone in the history of the department.

 source:   http://www.banktechindia.com/news/11-10-17/Indian_Post_Office_Act_to_be_amended_soon.aspx

India Post's ATM plans hit RBI hurdle

India Post's plan to set up automated teller machines (ATMs) in its post offices may fail to impress the banking regulator.

                                       India Post is in talks with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to set up ATMs. However, since according to norms, only banks are allowed to set up ATMs, the central bank is not in favour of allowing India Post to set up ATMs. According to sources in the banking industry, if India Post set up ATMs, they should fall under the RBI's purview for regulation purposes.Tweet

India Post has proposed to set up a subsidiary, Post Bank of India, for providing banking facilities. It has also identified nearly 1,000 post offices, out of its 1.5 lakh post offices, where the ATMs would be initially set up.
The sources said though RBI is uncomfortable with the idea of India Post setting up ATMs, it is yet to formally communicate its apprehensions to the department of post.

To increase efficiency and profitability, the department of post had planned to introduce banking solutions and set up ATMs and debit cards for its customers. It also plans to introduce core banking solution by 2012, and has initiated the process of modernising information technology (IT) during the current financial year. The cost of the IT modernisation project is estimated at around Rs 2,000 crore, which includes an integrated, modular software solution, covering postal operations, banking and insurance services.

The department of post also has plans to tie up with banks to help its customers use their India Post debit cards at ATM machines. It has also submitted a plan to the finance ministry for approval. The department aims to offer banking services through India Post in unbanked rural areas that lack formal financing facilities.

India Post already offers financial services, including post office savings schemes, postal life insurance, pension payments and money transfer services.

Source: Business Standard

Modernisation of Department of Posts

Government has approved the ‘IT MODERNIZATION PROJECT’ of Department of Posts for computerization of Post Offices, Mail Offices, Administrative Offices and other field offices. This will involve establishment of required IT infrastructure, development of required software applications with an outlay of Rs.1877.2 crore.
The project has the following salient features:
• It will establish IT infrastructure of Data Centre and Disaster Recovery Centre and networking of all Departmental Post Offices including appropriate connectivity in the Branch Post Offices in the rural area.
• The project envisages development of integrated modular scalable applications for Mail, kBanking, Postal Life Insurance, solutions for Accounts and HR operations of the department.
• The rural post offices will be provided with rural ICT devices with required applications for performing Postal, Savings Bank, Insurance, MGNREGS and Money Order operations.
• Provision has been made for training, change management, capacity building of the employees of the department along with Project Management activity for smooth and timely implementation of the project.
It is planned to network all Departmental Post Offices and Branch Post Offices in the country subject to availability of connectivity and resources under the “India Post Technology Project-2012”.
The departmental Post Offices are proposed to be networked with appropriate connectivity. Branch Post Offices located in rural areas are proposed to be networked using available connectivity at these locations. The rural ICT Devices in the Branch Post Offices will have the capacity to work in both online/offline mode. The IT project is expected to be implemented by 2012-13 subject to the availability of funds.
This information was given by Shri Sachin Pilot, the Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology in written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today.
Source: PIB