DOP proposes to open 80 Branch Post Offices and 50 Sub-Post Offices in the country during 2012-13

India has the largest number of Post Offices in the world. However, 5,00,327 villages are without Post Offices in the country. Opening of Post Offices is an on-going process. New Post Offices are opened as per the prescribed norms and subject to availability of Plan funds and manpower. It has been proposed to open 80 Branch Post Offices and 50 Sub-Post Offices in the country during the current financial year (2012-13).

24,969 departmental Post Offices have been computerized, out of which 21,606 Post Offices have been provided electronic money order facilities. The Department has a plan to provide these services through all Post Offices in phased manner and it is expected to be completed during the current Plan. 

This information was given by Dr. (Smt.) Killi Kruparani, Minister of State for C&IT in written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today. 

Infosys plans to roll out Rs 700-crore project for India Post in 2 years

 IT major InfosysBSE -1.84 % plans to roll out in about two years, its Rs 700-crore project that would help India Post transform its banking and insurance operations across 150,000 post offices in the country.

Infosys would implement and manage its flagshipFinacle Core Banking and McCamish Insuranceproducts to help India Post transform its banking and insurance operations - covering more than 200 million banking customers across urban and rural India, including a large base of insurance customers.

"We are expecting to roll out the project for India Post in 18-24 months. We will roll it out for 150,000 branches across 22 circles. It will change the way India Post operates at present," Infosys Vice-President and Head ( India Business) Raghupathi N Cavale told reporters here.

Speaking on the sidelines of 'INFOCOM 2012', he said the company is keen on developing similar projects for retail, health and education sectors.

"We are looking at mobility as a very strong theme," Cavale said.

As per an agreement between Infosys and India Post, the two would embark on a transformational initiative, which encompassed financial servicessystem integration.

The project, estimated at Rs 700 crore, aimed to transform India Post into a technology-enabled and autonomous market leader, by revolutionising its financial operations and end-user services, according to an earlier statement by Infosys.

This was part of the 'India Post 2012' modernisation programme that aimed at bringing transparency, agility, flexibility and scalability to India Post's operations.

Infosys would be also install 1,000 ATMs for India Post as part of this programme and implement an electronic content management system to manage millions of documents generated as part of India Post's financial operations.

IT Modernization project of India Post

Click here to view the presentation made by Department of Posts on IT Modernization project at New Delhi on 30.11.2012.