Indian post

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Indian Post
Indian Postal Service (IPoS)
India Post

भारतीय डाक

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legal form
founding October 1, 1854
Seat Dak Bhawan, Sansad Marg , New Delhi IndiaIndiaIndia 
management State Secretary Shri. Pradipta Kumar Bisoi, Chairperson, Postal Services Board.
Number of employees 418,818
sales ₹ 11,496.18 crore
Branch Postal services, sales of postage stamps, payment processing, insurance, savings ( India Post Payments Bank )
Website [1]
Status: 2017

The Indian Post ( English Indian Postal Service , Hindi भारतीय डाक ) (market presence: India Post ) is the postal company of the Indian government .

There are 154,965 post offices, including the only floating post office in the world on Dal Lake . It is the largest postal administration in the world in terms of the number of post offices. There are 23 delivery areas ( postal circles ), including one military ( Army Postal Service ). Each area is subdivided into regions and in turn divisions. Each postal circle is headed by a Postmaster General. The Chief Postmaster General is in charge of overall management below the State Secretary for Post . The postal administration is based in New Delhi . The current logo has been in use since 2008. India Post is a member of the Universal Postal Union .

history

Employee at the Central Post Office in Delhi (1903)

The first written mentions of postal dispatches in today's India are described in the Atharvaveda (1st millennium BC). On March 31, 1774, the Post Office Department of the East India Company was established. In 1854 founded James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie , the Postal Administration of British India ( Post Office of East India ). Shortly before India's independence , there were 652 princely states . With regard to cooperation or independence from the Indian Postal Service , a distinction was made between feudal states with their own postal system ( feudatory states ) and the convention states :

Convention states Feudal states with their own postal system

At the time of the partition of India there were 23,344 post offices.

In 1972 postcodes were first introduced in India .

Department of Posts

The Post Department ( Department of Posts ) is part of the Ministry of Communications and is in charge of the entire national postal system; this also regulates the private postal service providers in the country.

List of Post Secretaries ( Department Of Posts ) from 1947

State Secretary Shri is the head of the department. Pradipta Kumar Bisoi, Chairperson, Postal Services Board. His predecessors were (with terms of office):

  • Sh. K.Ramachandra Murthy January 31, 1985 February 28, 1987
  • Sh. PS Raghavachari 03/01/1987 01/31/1989
  • Sh. Riazudin Khumbia Saiyed 02/02/1989 05/31/1990
  • Sh. Kailash Prakash 05/31/1990 12/16/1991
  • Sh. Suraj Prakash Ghulati 12/17/1991 05/30/1992
  • Sh. Leslie Derick Bonnell 06/01/1992 10/31/1992
  • Sh. Srirangam Kupuswami Parthasarathy 11/01/1992 01/31/1994
  • Sh. TE Raman 02/01/1994 05/31/1994
  • Sh. Sarat Chandra Mahalik 06/02/1994 03/31/1996
  • Sh. Ray Uday Shankar Prasad 04/01/1996 06/30/2000
  • Sh. Barindra Nath Som 07/02/2000 01/31/2002
  • Sh. Swapan Chandra Dutta 02/01/2002 02/28/2003
  • Ms. Padma Balasubramanian 03/04/2003 11/30/2003
  • Sh. Vijay Bhusan 12/1/2003 11/30/2004
  • Sh. R. Ganesan 12/1/2004 10/31/2005
  • U. Srinivasa Raghavan 11/01/2005 06/30/2006
  • Ms. Jyotsna Diesh 07/01/2006 12/31/2006
  • Sh. IMGhani Khan 01/01/2007 06/23/2008
  • Ms. Radhika Doraiswamy 06/24/2008 10/31/2011
  • Ms.Manjula Prasher October 31, 2011 January 31, 2013
  • Ms. Padmini Gopinath 02/01/2013 05/31/2014
  • Ms. Kavery Banerjee 06/01/2014 04/30/2016
  • Sh.Shekhar Kumar Sinha (Addl.Charge) 05/01/2016 07/28/2016
  • Sh. Boyapati Venkat Sudhakar 07/29/2016 04/30/2017
  • Sh. Ananta Narayana Nanda 05/01/2017 to date

staff

The Indian Post currently employs 418,818 people. Internal training is offered for direct entrants. This always begins in level 1. Qualified employees can go through level 2.

  • Level 1: Foundation Course Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA) or Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy (SVPNA) or National Academy of Direct Taxes .
  • Level 2: Management / Administration Rafi Ahmed Kidwai National Postal Academy (RAKNPA).

Mailboxes

The mailboxes are usually cherry red; There are the following designs: small box-shaped, small barrel-shaped and massive barrel-shaped made of cast iron .

old mailbox before 1949 (left in the picture)

Post boxes in the state of Kerala are a specialty. The Principality of Travancore had a state post until 1949. The letter boxes there were green or mauve gold from 1866 and were each manufactured by Massey & Co in Madras. Many of these old mailboxes are still standing today and some are still in use.

Services

  • Letters and parcels with and without shipping insurance
  • EMS Speed ​​Post for express delivery (national market leader) for items up to 35 kg, for recipients in India and 99 countries. The postage always includes a shipment insurance.
  • Remittances ( money by money orders )
  • Passbook system and current account ( India Post Payment Bank )
  • The postal life insurance ( Postal Life Insurance ) is offered for everyone from 1 February 1884th
  • Post-life insurance for customers in rural areas ( Rural Postal Life Insurance )
  • Processing of Western Union services
  • Payment of pension payments under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS).

Philately / postage stamps

Postage stamps from the state of Nabha (Convention State ) with a face value of 2 rupees (IN-NS 14) with the motif Queen Victoria (United Kingdom) , issued in 1897

Due to the large number of predecessor organizations, each with their own nominal values ​​and motifs, there were many thousands of different types of postage stamps in the 19th and 20th centuries, some of which initially consisted of embossed seals or wax seals. National standard postage stamps ( service stamps ) have existed since 1947 with a variety of face values ​​and motifs. Every year since 1947, commemorative stamps have been issued to commemorate events or people ; 87 in 2019 alone. India Post was the first postal administration in Asia to issue gummed postage stamps. (July 1852). Over 3000 types of postage stamps have been issued since 1947.

There is a large Indian Post Philately Museum in New Delhi. There is another small philately museum on the Dal Lake.

Illustrations

  • Package from Bombay to London (1866). The letter was delivered by sea and land in 28 days.

  • Postal worker empties a mailbox

  • Post office in Udhagamandalam (Tamil Nadu) in typical red and white colors

  • Letter sorting system in the Automated Mail Processing Center in Kolkata (2013)

See also

literature

  • Headrick, Daniel. "A double-edged sword: Communications and imperial control in British India." Historical Social Research / Historical Social Research (2010): 51–65. in JSTOR
  • Majumdar, Mohini Lal. The imperial post offices of British India, 1837-1914 (Phila Publications, 1990)
  • Rahman, Siddique Mahmudur. "Postal Services During The East India Company's Rule In Bengal." Bangladesh Historical Studies 19 (2002): 43+
  • Andreas Birken : Philatelic Atlas of British India , CD-ROM, Hamburg 2004

Web links

Commons : Post of India  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Commons : Stamps of British India  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ^ Ministry of Communications> Department of Posts: Organization. Retrieved November 10, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Department of Posts: Annual Report 2018-2019. (PDF) 2019, accessed on October 20, 2019 (English, p. 86, section 12.18).
  3. ↑ (as of March 31, 2017) https://www.indiapost.gov.in/VAS/Pages/AboutUs/PostOfficeNetwork.aspx
  4. ↑ Floating on the Dal Lake in Srinagar, a post office like no other. March 8, 2016, accessed January 13, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Department of Posts: Annual Report 2018-2019. (PDF) Retrieved October 20, 2019 (English, p. 25, section 4.1).
  6. Jump up ↑ Grover BL & Mehta Alka: A New Look at Modern Indian History (From 1707 to The Modern Times), 32e. S. Chand Publishing. pp. 163. 2018, accessed October 20, 2019 (English, ISBN 978-93-5253-434-0 ).
  7. ^ Postal History of India. Retrieved January 13, 2020 (American English).
  8. ↑ Mohini Lal Mazumdar, Early History and Growth of Postal System in India, Calcutta, Phila Publications, (1995) p. 358
  9. ↑ States, with the Indian Postal Administration an agreement Indian Postal Service signed
  10. ↑ Department of Posts: Annual Report 2018-2019. (PDF) Retrieved October 20, 2019 (English, p. 25, section 4.1).
  11. ^ Ministry of Communications> Department of Posts: Organization. Retrieved November 17, 2019 .
  12. ^ Department of Posts: Secretaries, Department Of Posts. 2019, accessed on October 20, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Department of Posts: Annual Report 2018-2019. (PDF) Accessed on October 20, 2019 (English, p. 86, section 12.18).
  14. ↑ Service Profile For The Indian Postal Service- 2019 (PDF)
  15. ↑ File: Vaikom Anchal Petty.jpg
  16. ↑ File: Anchal Box Perumbavoor Rest House.JPG
  17. ↑ Domestic Speed ​​Post. Retrieved January 13, 2020 .
  18. ^ Overview: Postal Life Insurance, Government of India. Retrieved January 13, 2020 .
  19. ↑ About Us. Retrieved January 13, 2020 .
  20. ↑ Postage Stamps: SERVICE POSTAGE STAMPS. Retrieved January 13, 2020 .
  21. ^ Postage Stamps: Stamps 1947-2000. Retrieved January 13, 2020 .
  22. ↑ Postage Stamps: Stamps 2019. Retrieved January 13, 2020 (English).
  23. ^ Postage Stamps: Philately - History of Philately in India. Retrieved January 13, 2020 .
  24. ↑ National Philatelic Museum, New Delhi http://delhitourism.gov.in/delhitourism/entertainment/national_philately_museum.jsp