India Post adds 2 more freighter aircraft

India Post adds 2 more freighter aircraft

India Post, in a strategic tie-up with Air India, on Sunday launched two dedicated freighter aircraft for faster transmission of Speed Post, mail, parcel and logistics across the country. The number of aircraft available with the Department of Post (DoP) for its exclusive use has gone up to three. The DoP already has an exclusive aircraft for services in the North Eastern region. The NE freighter has now been linked up with the national network and all the three freighters would arrive at the hub — Nagpur for exchange of mail every night and would return to their base cities soon after.
Union Minister for Communication and IT, A Raja, flagged off the aircraft. Minister of State for Communications and IT, Sachin Pilot and Secretary, DoP, Radhika Doraiswamy and top officials of Air India were also present.
After flagging off the aircraft, Raja said several new initiatives were being taken to reinvent the DoP in tune with the globalised changes. As part of the initiative, the freighter aircraft were being inducted that would put in place a faster and reliable mode of system for carriage of consignments from ordinary letters to perishable cargos. Post offices (PO) were being modernised under Project Arrow and 1,000 more POs will be developed.
At a cost of Rs 65 crore, new Automatic Mail Processing Centres would be set up in Delhi and Kolkata to be followed by centres in Chennai and Mumbai. New sorting machines will be installed in 10 major cities.
A group of experts was appointed to recommend ways to make all the 1.5 lakh post offices in the country IT enabled and the experts’ report is likely soon. To facilitate quick money transfer from any place in the world to India and out of the country, a new plan, ‘EuroGiro’ will be launched in October in Chennai. This will enable remittances in just an hour. Radhika Doraiswamy told reporters IT major Accenture has been appointed consultant to network and upgrade post offices in the country. In a phased manner, post offices will be brought under Core Banking solutions.
Source-Express News Service