Residents of Bokaro will soon be able to book Air and Railway tickets from the post office to any destination in the country’s railway network as well as any air network.
These facilities have been already started at several post offices across the country and Bokaro head post office will soon be equipped with this facility. Indian Railways have tied-up with India Post for this initiative, said KD Singh SSP Dhanbad.
In a bid to facilitate people post offices are rolling out several services gradually as it has the largest network across the country and would have a good impact, he said.
The postal department is all set to open Common Service Centres (CSCs) — digital kiosks where people can access online government services at Bokaro Post office in a bid to make the postal network public friendly. We have the plan to open CSC centre at Bokaro post office very soon where people can access several facilities and services, he informed.
“Initially services like PAN card, Voter’s ID card, registration of birth and death, electricity and water bill payment, pension payment, rail and air tickets, Fast Tag, Mobile and DTH recharge facilities will be started,” added SSP.
Besides other post office network services like postal, saving accounts and other people can access over 50 types of services here at postal department’s CSC centres, said Singh. We are providing training to our staffs, very soon such centres would be come-up across Bokaro and Dhanbad, said SSP.
We are at work to provide over 50 services at CSC centres would be started later are Registration of PM Aawas Yojna, Agriculture Insurance, Renewal of General Insurances, E-Challans, EMI Collections, E-Stamps, Aadhar Card, Aysuman Bharat Yojna, Labour Registration and Enrolment, NPS, Online Registrations for Admission in Schools and Colleges and others, he informed.