The direct cash transfer scheme (DCT) is going to be
launched through post offices in Chittoor district. The seeding of the accounts
of beneficiaries with Aadhaar numbers and biometrics is being completed and it
would be launched by February 9, Chief Postmaster General AP Circle Karuna
Pillai said.
Union Minister for Rural Development Jairam Ramesh, Union
Minister of State for Information Technology and Communication Killi Kripa
Rani, Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy and other Ministers and dignitaries are
expected to attend the launch, she said speaking on the sidelines of the AP
Postal Regional Cultural Selection Trials 2013 here on Saturday.
Further, the Department of Posts is launching its core
banking service in Srikakulam district and Parvathipuram division this month,
she said. With the linking of the postal savings bank accounts the users would
be able to transact their accounts in any post office in the region for now and
later it would be expanded to cover all the post offices. These accounts also
would be seeded with the Aadhaar and biometric details to enable their unique
identification and enable them to be used for the Centre’s DCT scheme.
Accepting the fact that there were delays in the delivery
of Aadhaar cards to individuals she said that postmen were heavily burdened. In
some cases the postmen have 8,000 articles to deliver. This would cause a delay
in their delivery. In Hyderabad, the postmen have been delivering the Aadhaar
cards on Sundays and holidays also, she said and added that the Department was
also recruiting staff apart from provide postmen with two-wheelers to increase
the efficiency in the last mile delivery, she added.
The Department will sett up two automatic mail sorting
machines at its complex near the Hyderabad airport. One system would cater to
the regular letters and the other to sort the parcels. The letter sorting
machine would be able to handle 35,000 letters per hour and the other would be
able to sort 25,000 parcels per hour.
Union Minister for Rural Development Jairam Ramesh
to launch the scheme
Source:-The Hindu
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