India Post set up Vigilance Squads

Tamilnadu Circle

India Post set up Vigilance Squads

Determined to set a shining new example, India Post has set up vigilance squads across the state to keep tabs on postmen who demand money from customers for their services. According to Shanthi Nair, Chief Postmaster General, Tamil Nadu Circle, customers are filing around 100 complaints every month, in the wake of which the department has decided to take strict action to end corruption.
Even as it cleans up its act, the postal department is going high-tech. “Among 12,000 computerised post offices in the country, 1,459 are in Tamil Nadu and the department will soon complete the computerisation of another 100 post offices in TN villages,” said Ms Nair, while announcing World Post Day and National Postal Week celebrations in the city on Friday.
About 176 post offices in the state have already been modernised under Project Arrow and the department has already identified another 80 more offices for the Phase IV modernisation plan.
Aadhar, which is to be prepared under the unique identification code, will be distributed through India Post and the postal department will play a major role in its preliminary stages of implementation.