Electronic services at 1.55 lakh state post offices by 2014

After the Maharashtra circle of the India Post started the e-post service in urban areas, the officials are now ready to computerise all their post offices to ensure better services in the India Post - 2012 project by 2014.

In the next few months, the state will have a network of over 1.55 lakh post offices with all the electronic services. Currently a customer can avail the e-post facility that provides the facility of transmission of text messages or scanned documents to remote places through email and physical delivery of printouts across 169 e-post centres in the city.

India post has tied up with various IT organisations to provide e-services to its customers. The Maharashtra Postal circle covers the states of Maharashtra and Goa and is divided into five regions -- Mumbai, Pune, Aurangabad, Goa and Nagpur -- with 12,595 post offices in the state and 258 in Goa with over 48,000 employees.

Under the India Post-2012 project, Post Office Saving Bank schemes will inaugurate the first pilot post office in Chennai on November 11 with over 120 centres across the country.

India post aims to become a technology enabled department with implementation of core banking. The benefits will become visible to the customers with 100 ATMs in selected premises across India. It will provide the facility of access to accounts from post offices.