“NAGPUR stands first in Postal Life Insurance scheme in Maharashtra circle and second in Rural Postal Life Insurance scheme,” informed Shobha Madhale, Postmaster General of Nagpur Postal Area, during a press conference held at General Post Office (GPO), Nagpur on Wednesday. She was speaking at a press conference organised on the occasion of World Post Day. Shashin Rai Deputy Director of Press Information Bureau, Nagpur Office, was also present on the occasion. A special cancellation stamp was also released on this occasion. This year’s World Post Day theme is ‘150 years of Enabling Communication and Empowering People’ as postal services continue to contribute in social and economic development. In her address, Madhale mentioned that postal services was started globally in 1874 and since has been continuously providing services to people in different countries. She highlighted that new rates of interest have been issued on October 1.

 

“Postal service departments have faced many challenges yet managed to excel in service. As time changed, various other forms of services emerged, but people continued to trust India Post,” exclaimed Shashin Rai. Furthur, Madhale briefly provided information about various schemes of Indian Postal Department including Mahila Samman Savings Certificate and Postal Life Insurance Scheme. “Employees of Nagpur Postal Service are alsp taking efforts to reach people in remote areas of Vidarbha and make them understand the benefits and procedure of schemes,” she informed. She emphasised that more efforts will be taken on Aadhaar registrations and updation, girl child empowerment scheme awareness, appealed public to take benefits of the State and Central Governments schemes through Nagpur postal sector. Nagpur region covers 11 districts inVidarbha and has total 3887 post offices in main, sub and branch types. There are a total of 9 Post Office Passport Seva Kendras under Nagpur Region.

 

There are 11 branches of Indian Post Payment Bank having 36.70 lakh savings accounts, out of which 8,75,455 accounts have been opened during the period July to September 2024, in which maximum accounts being opened under the Chief Minister Ladki Bahin Yojana. In the financial year 2024-2025, 3,70,273 Post Office Savings Accounts have been opened out of which 33,310 are Sukanya Samriddhi Accounts. All post offices in Nagpur area are available on Darpan 2.0, a digital platform, to make postal services faster. An exhibition on the history of postage stamps will be held on November 28 and 29 at GPO, Civil Lines, where the information of postal services, stamp’s printing process, how to preserve it and the scope of studying Philately will be discussed and shared.