Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Thursday, Feb 05, 2004
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Supply Chain Management Bengal postal circle hopes to generate Rs 135-cr revenue Our Bureau
Kolkata , Feb. 4 THE West Bengal Circle of the Department of Posts is hopeful of generating a revenue of Rs 135 crore from postal operations during the year ending March 31,2004. A further sum of Rs 339 crore is expected to be earned in the current fiscal as remuneration for small savings collections. Stating this at a press conference held here today to announce the launch of epost, Mr P.K. Chatterjee, Chief Post Master General of the West Bengal Circle of the Department of Posts, said that in 2002-03, the West Bengal Circle earned Rs 113.56 crore and Rs 258.47 crore from postal operations and remuneration on small savings collections, respectively. Mr Chatterjee said the epost initiative was aimed at bridging the digital divide across the country. The service has been tested in five States and has now been launched in West Bengal. A total of 300 epost centres has been set up across the country, including 26 in West Bengal. Under the epost service, handwritten and printed messages of customers are scanned at identified post offices that have epost centres before they are transmitted as e-mail through the Internet. At the destination centres, these messages are printed, sealed in envelopes and delivered by postmen as in the case of ordinary mail. The service can be availed of from any post office. Messages can be booked at any post office even if it does not have an epost centre. Similarly, messages received at epost centres for areas beyond their delivery jurisdiction would be printed and sent to the concerned post offices for delivery. Besides, messages can be delivered to any email ID in the world. They would be printed on A4 size paper and cost Rs 10 per page per addressee, Mr Chatterjee said, adding that the service can also be accessed at the epost portal indiapost.nic.in.
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