New Delhi: There will be no job losses during transformation of the Department of Posts, Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad assured Friday.
"I assure all employees that no one will lose their job during the transformation of Department of Post. There is a need for capacity building," Prasad tweeted while sharing highlights of his address to circle heads of Department of Posts.
The Minister has been asking postal employees to transform themselves and help in transformation of post offices.
"Computerisation of all Post Offices must be completed soon. This is my priority and I will personally monitor the progress of this work," he tweeted.
The minister said that proposed Post Bank of India will be a game changer for the department as it will take financial inclusion to a new level.
"Post offices must gear up for this," he said.
The DoP has plans to set up Post Bank of India under payments bank licence. The Reserve Bank of India has already issued licensing norms for niche banks -- payments banks and small banks.
Prasad said that DoP officers should reach out to eCommerce companies and offer them logistics services.
"eCommerce is a great opportunity. India Post must use this opportunity to take eCommerce to the every corner of India," Prasad said.
India Post has launched a mobile application and an e-commerce centre at Safdarjang, New Delhi, that will handle e-retailing exclusively. The centre is capable of handling 30,000 parcels per day.
Online retail players such as Amazon, Paytm and Snapdeal are using the Postal Department's services for their parcels.
He said that post offices in rural India must also improve their facilities and improve their visibility by placing sign boards so that people can locate it easily.
"Department of Post has to play a bigger & more active role in transformation of India. No other govt agency has such deep understanding of India," Prasad tweeted.
The Centre is planning to set up rural BPOs in different states with a total around 48,000 seating capacity, Telecom and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said today.
Prasad said this at the concluding function of two-day annual Heads of Circles' Conference organised at Gurgaon on today.
The Minister also felicitated the top four performing Circles - Assam, Bihar, Delhi and Maharashtra Postal Circles by giving them Speed Post Awards for their outstanding revenue contribution in different segments.
The Conference was attended by senior officers of the Department of Posts to set the agenda of the government in terms of targets, focus areas, challenges and strategy for the Department of Posts for the current financial year.
He stated that the Department of Posts, with a history of being the largest, most well known and accessible institution of the government will play a critical role in furthering the endeavor of the Centre for all-round growth in social and economic sectors.
Complementing the Department of Posts for ending with a positive revenue growth of around 9.35 percent in the last financial year and particularly the big strides it has made in generating e-Commerce revenue of more than 30 percent with a steady progress in the IT Modernization Project, the Minister set the agenda for the current financial year on various fronts.
