India Post, Jharkhand Circle has planned to extend its services across the State. During the ongoing ‘National Postal week’ celebrations, Jharkhand Circle has announced to open 2,800 micro ATMs and 116 ATMs statewide within three months.
“The Postal department is expanding its services to provide world class facilities to its customers. From November to March 2017, the work of installing 2800 micro ATMs and 116 ATMs will be complete in three phases. In the first phase, the department will cover Daltonganj, Ranchi and Santhal Pargana while in second phase Jamshedpur, Giridih, Hazaribagh will be covered under the programme and in the third phase, Dhanbad will be targeted for the purpose,” said Chief Post Master General Anil Kumar while briefing the press.
“Schemes like Dak Jeevan Bima and Gramin Dak Jeevan Bima started sometime back gave maximum benefits to the beneficiaries in minimum premium and slowly gaining impetus among the public. Presently, 357 Post Offices have been linked up with Core Banking System (CBS). Recently, India Post has received the permission from Reserve Bank of India and the Cabinet to open India Post Payment Bank ltd. (IPPB). IPPB will be established in March 2017 and a letter has been floated lately for appointing personnel at different posts in IPPB,” added Kumar.
Around seven personnel were felicitated for their contribution and incredible work with ‘Dak Sewa Award’ on Friday to mark the occasion. Officials of the Postal department are also in talk with senior officials of the Health Department for initiating the service of providing generic medicines to people through India Post.
“We would like to initiate the service of generic medicines too. However, nothing has been finalized yet on the matter. We are in constant touch with the officials associated with it,” added Kumar.