The Department of Post (DoP) is on a
technology upgrade drive. The department plans to set up 1,000 automated
teller machines (ATMs) across six states —Assam, Uttar Pradesh,
Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu — as part of its
ongoing modernisation drive, said Manjula Parasher, secretary, posts.
“We will start execution of our
modern technology programme across six circles by the end of this year,”
said Parasher. “This will help in people getting core banking facility
etc. We plan to have 1,000 ATMs in a phased manner. The process for this
will start by the year-end.”
The DoP has selected five major
technology companies for five of its technology advancement projects.It
has issued a Letter of Intent to Infosys for two projects including
rural system and financial services integration; Tata Consultancy
Services for change management; Sify for network integration and
Reliance Communications Infrastructure for data centre.
The department plans to start
execution of some of these projects by end of this year across six
states on a pilot basis.It has already received approval for Rs 1,877
crore to be spent across these projects over a period of two years and
will seek additional funds when the need arises.“Funds of Rs 1,877 crore
have been approved,” said Parasher. “We will go ahead with that. We may
need more money because implementation in some of the cases may last
over six-nine years.”The department will computerise all of its 1.6 lakh
post offices across the country by 2013 with over 24,000 department
post offices already computerised by March.
250 computerised post offices in J-K
With an aim of providing better
services to the people, the DoP has decided to computerise at least 250
post offices in Jammu and Kashmir during the current year. “During this
year, the department has taken the ambitious plan of computerising 250
post offices and modernising them to make them relevant,” said John
Samuel, chief postmaster general, J&K Circle. PTI/Srinagar
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