We aim to make India Post customer-friendly and provide services in every nook and corner of Odisha. Our goal is to revamp postal services and make it relevant in the contemporary times,” said Chief Post Master General (CPMG), Odisha Circle Santosh Kumar Kamila at a Press meet here on Sunday on the eve of the World Post Day and the National Postal Week which will be celebrated from October 9 to 15.
Speaking on the various products of the India Post offered by the Odisha Postal Circle, Kamila said Speed Post booking facility can be availed in all the Post Offices in the circle. The circle has signed a MoU with Southco and Wesco for collection of electricity bills at any Post Office in Odisha. Consumers can now pay their electricity bill at their nearest Post Office. A MoU will be signed shortly with Nesco to give service to their customers, Kamila said.
Four Aadhaar enrolment, updation centres are functioning in Odisha circle which be extended to all the 1,018 computerised Post Offices, where a customer can update any Aadhaar information. The circle has signed a MoU with Railway Board after which the PRS facility has been introduced in 23 Post Offices, where people can book their train ticket, he informed.
He further informed the customers can open Sukanya Samruddhi Account in the Post Offices the name of a girl child up to 10 years of her age and would continue up to 21 years. Withdrawal can be made after 18 years for higher education and marriage purpose of the girl child. Besides, the circle conducted financial awareness programmes with Reserve Bank of India in Kandhamal and Ganjam district to warn customers about falling prey to dubious chit fund companies.
Nearly 40 GPs have been identified to open Post Offices in the worst affected leftwing extremism (lWE) affected districts of Koraput and Malkangiri. Computerisation is being taken up on a war-footing in all post offices in the State, Kamila said. Among others, Business Development Director Khageswar Mallick, Biswanath Purohit and Gadadhar Rath were present.