Rural Post offices in a Modern form – Darpan (Digital Advancement of Rural Post Office for A New India)
Rural Post offices in a Modern form –
Darpan (Digital Advancement of Rural Post Office for A New India)
What is DARPAN –
“Digital Advancement of Rural Post Office for A New
India” Project is improving the quality of service, add value to services and
achieve “financial inclusion” of un-banked rural population.
New Delhi: On Thursday, Minister of Communications Manoj
Sinha launched DARPAN - “Digital Advancement of Rural Post Office for A New
India” Project to improve the quality of service, add value to services and
achieve “financial inclusion” of un-banked rural population.
on this occasion,
Sinha said that the goal of the IT modernisation project with an outlay of Rs.
1400 cr is to provide a low power technology solution to each Branch Postmaster
(BPM) which will enable each of approximately 1.29 Lakhs Branch Post Offices
(BOs) to improve the level of services being offered to rural customers across
all the states.
He said that as on date, 43,171 Branch
Post Offices have migrated under the “DARPAN”project with the aim of financial
inclusion to rural population and it is targeted to complete the project by
March, 2018.
The Project shall increase the rural reach
of the Department of Posts and enable BOs to increase traffic of all financial
remittances, savings accounts, Rural Postal Life Insurance, and Cash
Certificates; improve mail operations processes by allowing for automated
booking and delivery of accountable article; increase revenue using retail post
business; provide third party applications; and make disbursements for social
security schemes such as MGNREGS.
In order to provide the best-in-class
customer service, deliver new services and improve operational efficiencies,
the Department of Posts has undertaken an end to end IT modernization project
to equip itself with requisite modern tools and technologies. The IT
modernization project intends to achieve the following:
1. Wider reach to the Indian populace
through more customer interaction channels
2. Better customer service
3. Growth through new lines of business
4. IT enablement of business processes and
support functions
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