Now plane, bus tickets will also be available from the post office. Apart from this, customers will also get the benefit of services like making Aadhar card, updating, obtaining PAN card, birth-death certificate.
The Department of Posts is starting these services in Uttar Pradesh from April 1. A special portal is being started for this.
Allahabad division’s post office superintendent Sanjay D. Akhade told news agency PTI that these services would be available at the state’s head post office at present and would be expanded to other places later.
He told that the government has planned to provide citizen based services across the country through a Common Service Center (CSC) portal.
The Akhara said that for this a Common Service Center Special Purpose Vehicle (CSC-SPV) has been formed, which will work in collaboration with the Department of Posts. The Headpost Office at Parliament Street, Delhi has been made its nodal office.
Under the new services of the post office, people will now be able to apply for PAN card, Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana, Soil Health Card, Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana and PDS by going to the post office.
Apart from this, people will also be able to avail services like making Aadhar card from the post office, birth and death certificates, applying for Ayushman Bharat, booking rail tickets. Akhande said that under the B2C scheme, people will be able to avail services like mobile, DTH recharge, tally software registration, ITI registration.
Sanjay D. Akhade said that for these services, two master trainers and two operators from each of the 23 circles have been trained by the officials of CSC-SPV in Mysore. Under public utility service, people will be able to pay electricity bills, apply for new electricity-water, sewer connections.
Apart from this, merchants will also be able to file their GST returns from the post office. Services like group term insurance, bill payments and recharge, remittances and fund transfer, doorstep banking, DoP product payment and direct benefit transfer are already being provided in the post office. .
Last year, the Modi government had decided to convert India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) into a small finance bank. After this decision, loans were started from the post office to the customers.
