NEW DELHI, FEB 17: All
1.55 lakh post offices will starting working using modern technology by
next year, Finance Minister P Chidambaram said today.
“The IT modernisation
project of the Department of Posts with outlay of Rs. 4,909 crore will
be operational by 2015 in all 1.55 lakh locations,” the finance minister
said.
The IT modernisation
project with this outlay was approved by Cabinet Committee of Economic
Affairs (CCEA) in November 2012. It has to be implemented through eight
projects which include core banking system technology, IT-based
management at post offices, business intelligence system to analyse and
project new business opportunity.
The project aims at
increasing efficiency, quickening transactions and enhancing
transparency at all 1.55 lakh post offices in the country.
Under the project all rural
post offices are to be provided with 1,30,000 handheld devices which
will come with smart card readers for financial transactions, solar
panels for charging them, biometric readers for immediate identification
and thermal printers for immediate printing of receipt.
The devices will enable post offices to deliver services at the door step of the customer.
The postal department has
computerised about 25,000 departmental post offices but rural post
offices will be provided handheld devices for digitising records.
(This article was published on February 17, 2014)
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