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Wardha MP Tadas raises issue of lack of post offices in several villages
RAISING Hie issue of lack of post offices in as many as 809 villages in his rural area dominated Lok Sabha constituency of Wardha. the Member of Parliament RamdasTadas asked the Union Government if it was planning to open post offices in these villages.
Replying to a supplementary question to a star question raised by the BJP MP during Question Hour in Lok Sabha on Monday, the Union Information and Communication Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad told there are different standards set for opening a post office in a village depending on whether it is in the hilly area or in the plains, while assuring the Member to take a decision about villages in his constituency at the earliest after discussing applicability of set standards with its department.
Pointing out at the salaries post office personnel from the rural areas gel after long working hours of 12-14 hours a day. Tadas also demanded the Minister to consider rationalise (heir salaries. He also urged the Union Minister to technically upgrade the rural post offices in order to ensure more and more government schemes reach the rural areas in country where 80 percent of population still resides in the rural areas. Agreeing that apart from doing its traditional duties, the post offices also do the tasks like rural insurance, old age pension, servicemen's widow pension: distribution of wages under MNREGA scheme etc., Prasad also informed that direction by the Election Commission are also sent by the means of post offices. As regards increasing the salaries of rural postal personnel. the Minister said it is a comprehensive and complicated issue, while also assuring (o look into what could be done this regard.
To yet another supplementary question raised by BJD MP Tathagat Satpathy. seeking to know if there is any intention of the goverment to impress upon the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to give a license to the Postal Department to start banking operations, or postal banks in all the branches and train its employees in banking activities, the Minister said these are new areas of both challenge and opportunity for the Postal Department.
On the issue of huge losses being made by the Postal Department and
Replying to a supplementary question to a star question raised by the BJP MP during Question Hour in Lok Sabha on Monday, the Union Information and Communication Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad told there are different standards set for opening a post office in a village depending on whether it is in the hilly area or in the plains, while assuring the Member to take a decision about villages in his constituency at the earliest after discussing applicability of set standards with its department.
Pointing out at the salaries post office personnel from the rural areas gel after long working hours of 12-14 hours a day. Tadas also demanded the Minister to consider rationalise (heir salaries. He also urged the Union Minister to technically upgrade the rural post offices in order to ensure more and more government schemes reach the rural areas in country where 80 percent of population still resides in the rural areas. Agreeing that apart from doing its traditional duties, the post offices also do the tasks like rural insurance, old age pension, servicemen's widow pension: distribution of wages under MNREGA scheme etc., Prasad also informed that direction by the Election Commission are also sent by the means of post offices. As regards increasing the salaries of rural postal personnel. the Minister said it is a comprehensive and complicated issue, while also assuring (o look into what could be done this regard.
To yet another supplementary question raised by BJD MP Tathagat Satpathy. seeking to know if there is any intention of the goverment to impress upon the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to give a license to the Postal Department to start banking operations, or postal banks in all the branches and train its employees in banking activities, the Minister said these are new areas of both challenge and opportunity for the Postal Department.
On the issue of huge losses being made by the Postal Department and
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