In order to celebrate World Postal Day and to make life easier for people Postal Department on Friday launched solar lanterns at Rs2600, which is comparatively much less then the market price. The World Postal Day will be celebrated from October 9 to October 15. The one-week celebrations will be a theme based celebrations depicting the achievements and various schemes of postal department.
The Postal Department has collaborated with the SG Enterprises (the firm that supplies solar lantern) for the purpose. The Post Offices too have been selected on the basis of there specific locations. Those areas have been targeted where the electricity supply is either less or minimum and people can avail the facility of solar lantern from relevant Post Offices functioning at specific area.
Addressing people Post Master General, Anil Kumar asserted, “To encourage the use of renewable energy among the public, solar lantern is a best available option with us today. While exchanging the memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the concerned company, the solar lantern will be available at a nominal price as compare to the market range which is Rs2900-3000. This procedure will further enhance the Prime Minister’s aspiration of clean energy mechanism.”
“Presently under Shyam Jyoti lantern scheme, the solar lantern will be sold under the two models, ‘Aura’ and ‘Umang’. The ‘Aura’ lantern have seven watt CFl bulb inducted in it and it uses 10 watt solar plate for charging purpose whereas ‘Umang’ solar lantern uses one watt lED bulb and its three watt solar plate will be enough for charging the lantern and moreover it can be also charged using electricity, in case if weather is not in favourable condition,” Kumar further said.
On the occasion of World Postal Day citing details about various schemes and policies, Kumar informed, “So far we have managed to open 3.5 lakhs accounts under Sukanya Samridhi Yojana (SSY) which is one of the most ambitious schemes so far launched by the Postal Dept. In terms of population J’khand is third in number only after Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh in opening accounts under SSY. Another milestone is achieved by the Postal Dept in opening Digital Jeevan Praman Kendra, which presently functions in 13 districts of State.”
Few more essential services will be started by the postal services in the coming week. These services include pan card services, payment of electricity bill, banking procedure and others. In addition, Postal Dept have also tied up with few leading brands like Crossword, Archie’s, Patanjali in order to provide basic services to the denizens. Now books, greeting cards and even product like Ganga Jal (holy water used by Hindus in auspicious occasions) will be available for the public at various Post Offices. Presently Postal Department is providing wide range of services to people like Core Banking Services, e-commerce, parcels, Daak Jeevan Bima, online grievances cell, my stamp services.