The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved the IT Modernization Project – Phase-II proposal of the Department of Posts. The decision is to computerize all the Departmental and Grameen Dak Sevak (GDS) posts offices in the country. The approval has also been accorded for creation of IT infrastructure including establishment of Data Centre, Networking of the Departmental post offices, development of scalable, integrated and modular software for all the operations of the Department of Posts. The Project will be implemented over a three year period covering 2010-11, 2011-12 and 2012-13.
The total expenditure involved in this project will be Rs.1877.20 crore and it will cover all the Post Offices throughout the country in all the State and Union Territories. The Department of Posts will be floating tenders for procurement of hardware and development of software. Pilots will be held in rural and urban post offices. The final roll out will be completed by September 2012.
Handheld devices will be provided to all the Grameen Dak Sevak (GDS) Post Offices in the rural areas and necessary software application developed. Banking solution will be implemented for the Post Office Savings Bank (POSB) scheme. Software Integration solutions will be developed for mail operations enabling tracking solutions for all registered and Speed Post articles.
The Postal Life Insurance services will be available in all the Post Offices including rural pot offices in the country through computers and rural ICT devices. Comprehensive training will be given to staff in Customer relations, application, IT management and system training skills.
Background: The Post Office presently handles 654 crore pieces of mail annually. POSB has a corpus fund of Rs.5,63,000 crore. Significant trends like liberalization and globalization; urbanization, increased demand for financial services, increased funding by government for weaker sections and rural sector, make it imperative that India Post develop new processes and supporting technology.
This blog is meant for the use by members of the Association for sharing news and views. Sri C.G.Kamble. (Circle President), Assistant Supdt. Post (HQ), Bagalkot Dn, Bagalkot-587101, Sri Sreenivas.M.J.(Circle Secretary), Assistant Supdt.Post (I.R.), O/o PMG, South Karnataka Region, Bengaluru-560001. Sri Vasanth, [Circle Treasurer] Assistant Supdt.Post (Vigilance), O/o PMG, South Karnataka Region, Bengaluru-560001. Send your views and suggestions to : ipaspkarnataka@gmail.com
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Gazetted status for ASPs rather than creating a favourable condition and facility is always putting ASPs in disavantageous position. ASPs have got nothing by getting Gazetted status. Rather, the benefit of PLB is lost. In the last AIC held in April in New Delhi, I have given in writing that Orissa Circle Branch of AIAIASP is willing to forgo Gazetted status for ASPs if there is any problem for merger of IP and ASP cadre ( due to Gazetted status of ASP) to facilitate grant of GP of Rs.4600/- for IPs from 01.01.2006. The only condition Orissa Circle had suggested that the apponting authority of the merged cadre should be Chief PMG and not DPS, and the Divisional authority should have no disciplinary powers for IPs/ASPs.
ReplyDeleteI would request everybody to examine this aspect and give valuable suggestion.
B B Mohanty
CS, AIAIASP, Orissa Circle Branch
Today i got some cases where promotional post is having same scales. probably we should highlite the same to maintian the gazetted staus.
ReplyDeletejayanth