Extracts from PIB Release dated 26th December, 2012
Contributing to the financial inclusion of
the rural people:
(A) Wage disbursal under Mahatma Gandhi
National Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA):Extensive rural postal network of
the country is actively engaged in disbursal of wages of MGNREGA with high
levels of efficiency. During the year 2012-13 the Post Offices disbursed about
Rs 9,133 crore by October, 2012 through about 5.53 crore savings accounts of
MGNREGA workers standing in the Post Offices. Thus, the Department of Posts
significantly contributed towards the success of this unique social security
arrangement of unprecedented scale.
(B) Financial Inclusion of Below Poverty
Line (BPL Household: Department
of Posts leveraged its network and outreach to financially include BPL
households by targeting them for opening their savings accounts in the Post
Offices and thus providing them with access to savings services. During the
Year 2012-13 more than 1.53 crore households were financially included through
this initiative by October, 2012.
Introduction of e-enabled services
(A) 24,969
Departmental post offices have been computerized as on date
(B) India
Post has introduced Remotely Managed Franking System in place of existing
electronic Franking Machines. Around 5681 RMFS machines have been licensed and
activated as on date.
(C) e-Post
office Portal was commissioned during 2011. During the current year PLI premia
payment has also been added apart from sale of philatelic material.
International Remittance services
Recognizing the spurt in the volumes
of international remittances into India in the recent years and the
notable contribution of remittance inflows to the country’s economy, the
Department of Posts has taken a project to revamp its international money order
services. Currently, DoP provides electronic money remittance services on two
platforms, viz. the IFS (developed by the Universal Postal Union)
and Eurogiro. The following action has been completed in this regard:
1.
Setting up an International Remittances
Unit (IRU) at CEPT, Mysore.
2.
Starting the inward international money
order transactions from France
on 22 November, 2012.
Expansion of Clientele Base of Postal Life
Insurance(PLI)
In order to provide insurance coverage to persons of
various organizations which were earlier out of purview of PLI schemes and to
scale up business revenues employees of following organizations have also been brought
under PLI scheme w.e.f. 18.10.2012:
(i) Joint ventures having Govt/PSU stake
(ii) Credit Co-operative Societies
registered under Co-operative Societies Act
(iii) Scheduled Commercial Banks
(iv) Deemed Universities and Educational
Institutions accredited by recognized bodies i.e. AICTE, MCI, NAAC etc.
“Sampoorna Jeevan Bima Gram” and “Sampoona
Bima Sangathan”
For better insurance coverage of
eligible population, a targeted approach to cover villagers under RPLI and
organizations under PLI has been started from November 2012 as under:-
(i) to identify and cover minimum 75% of
employees of 20 organizations up to 31.10.2012 and 30 organisations/units up to
31.10.2012 as “Sampoorna Jeevan Bima Sangthan/Unit” under Postal Life
Insurance;
(ii) To identify and cover 1000 villages up
to 31.10.2012 and 2000 villages up to 31.03.2013, as “Sampoorna Jeevan Bima
Gram” wherein at least one member of each house hold is to be enrolled under
Rural Postal Life Insurance.
Financial Services
The Department successfully completed the vendor selection
for its Financial System Integration project. The vendor selected was M/s
Infosys who will be involved with the Core Banking solution and setting up of
ATMs for the Department. The project has started on 28th September 2012.
UIDAI Aadhar letters:
Department of Posts is working as Register with UIDAI for
providing Aadhar enrolments through Post Offices for phase-II operations also.
A total of 80,84, 181 successful enrolments have been completed.
ePost:
New and enhanced version of ePost software has been
launched on 12th December
2012. The enhanced version will have facility of sending multilingual messages
apart from sending PDF files as attachment. During the year 2012 (upto Nov
2012), 13.64 lakh messages have been sent and Rs 104.50 lakhs earned as
revenue.
Sale
of Gold Coins:
Under retail post, India Post sells 24 carat gold
coins of the denomination of 0.5 g, 1g, 5g, 8g, 10g, 20g and 50g through
selected Post Offices. During the year 2012 (upto Nov 2012), 708 kg of gold
coins were sold and Rs
10.99 crores earned as revenue.
Project Management Unit
The Government has approved the IT
Modernization Project of the Department of Posts for computerization of all the
non-computerized post offices, Mail Offices, Administrative and other offices,
establishment of required IT infrastructure, development of required software
applications. IT modernization Project – India Post will enable Department
to enhance and provide value additions to Mail, Savings Bank and Insurance,
customer service while providing a platform to launch new initiatives and
provide new rural services.
Money remittance through Mobile phone
service:
An agreement has been signed with BSNL
for providing money remittance through mobile phones. This is joint endeavor of
Department of Posts & BSNL. BSNL has been provided with the requirements of
DOP for development of the software. This service specially tailored for those
who have a need to remit money regularly up to a sum of Rs 10,000. Under the
Scheme, a remitter can go to any Post Office in the Circle enabled for the Mobile Money Transfer Service and remit an amount from Rs
1000/- to Rs 10,000/- to be paid to another mobile subscriber at the designated
Post Office. The Slabs for money transfer is as follows:
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Slabs
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Charges of Remittance
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Rs 1000 to 1500
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Rs 40
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Rs 1501 to 5000
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Rs 70
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Rs 5001 to 10,000
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Rs 100
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The service initially has been
launched on 15th November
2012 in four Circles viz. Kerala, Bihar, Delhi
and Punjab and this service is provided in 18
selected Post Offices in each Circle.
Department of Posts released India Post 2013 Calendar based on the theme of Astrological Signs.
