The Hindu Business Line : Post offices getting tech savvy

AUTOMATIC mail processing has been introduced in Chennai and Mumbai and soon it would be extended to New Delhi and Kolkata, Mr Su. Thirunavukkarasar, the Minister of State for Communications and IT, has said.

He was speaking at a public meeting here on Friday evening after inaugurating the new RMS building built at a cost of Rs 98 lakh.

He said 400 head post offices had been computerised and 200 more would be computerised during the year. Five thousand smaller post offices had also been computerised and 2,500 more would be added during the current year.

He said the department was providing WLL phones to 2,000 postmen in remote rural areas to give connnectivity to the areas on an experimental basis and it would be extended to other areas later.

The Centre was subsidising the postal department to the extent of Rs 1,500 crore per annum, 80 per cent of which was being spent on construction of new buildings and technological upgradation.

He promised speedy action on the demand of local leaders for issuing a commemorative stamp on the freedom-fighter hailing from Vizag, the late Tenneti Viswanadham.

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