Odisha Postal Circle is committed to serving the people of the State by providing added services on many fronts, said Odisha Circle Chief Postmaster General Santosh Kumar Kamila.
Highlighting the achievements of the circle, here on Friday at a Press meet, Kamila said during the year 2017-18, the Odisha Postal Circle excelled in its operation in numerous fields.
“Now citizens can enroll and update Aadhaar through 473 post offices. “Similarly, Baleswar, Brahmapur, Baripada, Bhawanipatna Head Post Offices have been added to the list of post offices providing Passport Seva Kendra and Athagarh Head Post Office for rail ticket booking facilities,” he said.
Kamila said in order to meet customers’ needs and improve computerised customer service, a project named ‘Darpan’ has been implemented in 2,611 Branch Post Offices of Angul Dhenkanal, Jajpur, Kendrapada, Bhadrak, Koraput, Rayagada, Nabarangpur, Malkangiri, Sambalpur, Bargarh, Jharsuguda and Deogarh.
“By this, computerisation has reached rural customers. All the Postal Divisions and RMS Divisions have been rolled out with Core System Integration project. Out of 1,206 Departmental Post Offices, 1,024 are working on CBS platform”, CPMG said.
The CPMG said during 2017-18, Odisha Circle earned the recognition of being top revenue earning circle among ‘Y’ category postal circles. He said Odisha Postal Circle has been able to open 17, 67,176 new Savings Bank accounts and earned Rs 318 crore revenue from savings bank transactions.
Kamila said Odisha Postal Circle is committed to its social responsibilities and in the process surveyed un-electrical households of 47,677 numbers of villages in a record time of 30 days and submitted its report to the Union Government.
He said people can now pay their water bills (Amrut City) and electricity bills (Nesco , Southco and Wesco) at all post offices having e-Payment facilities. The same will be extended to CESU areas shortly, he informed.
Kamila appealed the people of Odisha to avail the facility of doorstep service of payment of bills, opening of accounts and availing PMSBY, APY, Postal life insurance service through beat postman and Grameen Dak Sevak.
Among others, Brahampur PMG Colonel Jaleswar Kanhar and Sambalpur PMG l Pradhan and group officers of Circle Office were present.