As emails and SMSes become the order of the day, the good-old Postal
Department is going hi-tech by geo-tagging the post offices and has
begun monitoring timely clearance of the letter boxes through a mobile
app.
In collaboration with the Department of Space, India Post has geo-tagged
over 1.5 lakh post offices on the indigenous geo-portal Bhuvan,
developed by ISRO, to help people search the nearest post office and
know about services and timings.
India Post has over 1.55 lakh post offices of which more than 1.39 lakh
are in the rural areas. An official in Communications and IT Ministry
said that the remaining post offices would also be geo-tagged soon on
Bhuvan, a Hindi word for 'universe'.
The initiative is part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's drive to use
space technology by various departments of the government, he added.
"More than 1,50,000 post offices have been geotagged and their exact
location on a GIS satellite imagery map along with photograph, services
and office timings etc have been made available on the portal," he
added.
Bhuvan, developed by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), is
providing visualisation services and earth observation data to users in
public domain.
Bhuvan, started in 2009 with simple display of satellite data and basic
GIS functionality, now has more than 6,000 map services which are being
used under various applications.
Regarding other achievements of India Post in the last two years, the
official said core banking solution (CBS) for providing 'anywhere
banking' has been rolled out in 21,319 post offices, covering more than
30 crore Post Office savings bank accounts.
Besides, 910 post office ATMs have been installed across the country.
"A mobile app is being used for monitoring timely clearance of letter boxes in more than 16 cities," he added.
SOURCE:The Economic Times
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