India Post to hold Digital Week from August 1

The Odisha Postal Circle will observe the Digital India Week from August 1 to 6, aiming at transforming the department into a technology enabled, self-reliant market leader.Addressing a Press conference here, Chief Postmaster General, Odisha, Tilak Dey on Tuesday said the five initiatives to be taken include increasing market share and revenues, new products and services, improved service delivery, motivated work force and rural development. 

Modernization and computerization of all post offices, development of scalable, integrated and modular software covering all operations of posts, establishment of required IT infrastructure, including data center, wide area network based on networking are now underway. The India Post will provide multiple delivery channels like internet, mobile banking, ATMs, telephone and cards to access to financial services.

Five ATMs would be launched at Cuttack, Bhubaneswar, Puri, Sambalpur and Rourkella and 39 more locations are ready for installation of the same. Core System Integrator for human resource, mail and finance operations will work together, he informed. Among others, Director (HQ) Rl Gupta and Director (BD &Mails) AK Singh were present.