May 17, 2016
Kalaivaraikalai
New
Delhi, May 15 (PTI) 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 Modis 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.
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