Every possible help would be rendered to redress the grievances of those villagers, who faced the brunt of natural calamities.
Considering the natural calamities that wrecked havoc in the entire State, the department has already introduced free parcel booking service from all head post offices having maximum limit of 35 kilograms till July 20 and likely to extend the date. This was claimed by Chief Postmaster General MS Ramanujan in a Press conference held in Dehradun on Friday.
Ramanujan said that stern instructions have been given to the post offices staff to settle down the claims of natural hit victims within seven days of filing the papers.He lamented that Kedarnath, Gaurikund, lambagad, Hemkund Sahib based post offices are badly-damaged in the disaster. He informed that couple of plans is in the pipeline for ensuring the best services to customers even if they live in the remote areas of Uttarakhand.
Ramanujan informed that the ePost service has been launched as an effective substitute for telegram service, which is going to phase out from July 15. In order to provide best service to the consumers, the department has decided to introduce eStamping service for the registration of land deeds and was already introduced in five major post offices at Dehradun GPO, Kutchery GPO, SO (Dehradun) Roorkee HPO, Haridwar MDG and Rudrapur MDG.
Ramanujan further told that parcel packaging centre has been successfully launched at GPO, Dehradun and attractive, strong and good quality cartons are also available for sale in order to prevent any kind of damage to the parcel. He said that biggest advantage of the parcel cartons is that it is completely tamper proof. Ramanujan said that the department has opened all women post office at ONGC, Dehradun, post shopee etc in order to provide best service to consumers.