299 dated 18 October 1882 to the Secretary of State. Postal life insurance began on 1 February 1884 as a welfare measure for the employees of the Posts & Telegraphs Department as Government of India dispatch No.
In Madras Presidency, it was limited in the Bengal Presidency, no POSBs were established in Calcutta or Howrah. On 1 April 1882, Post Office Savings Banks opened throughout India (except in the Bombay Presidency). The Government Savings Bank Act 1873 (5 of 1873), passed by the legislature 28 January 1873, was enacted in 1881. The first superintendent of the post office was appointed in 1870 and based in Allahabad and in 1876, British India became the first non-founding member of the General Postal Union.Ī number of acts were passed during the British Raj to expand and regulate Posts and Telegraphs service:
By 1861, there were 889 post offices handling nearly 43 million letters and over 4.5 million newspapers annually. The British Raj was instituted in 1858, when the rule of the East India Company was transferred to the Crown. One of the highest post offices in the world is in Hikkim, Himachal Pradesh operated by India Post at a height of 4,700 m. In addition to the 23 circles, there is a base circle to provide postal services to the Armed Forces of India headed by a Director General. These divisions are further divided into subdivisions. Each circle is divided into regions, headed by a Postmaster General and comprising field units known as Divisions. The country has been divided into 23 postal circles, each circle headed by a Chief Postmaster General. With 1,55,015 Post Offices, the DoP has the most widely distributed postal network in the world. The DoP also acts as an agent for Government of India in discharging other services for citizens such as Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) wage disbursement and old age pension payments. It is involved in delivering mails, accepting deposits under Small Savings Schemes, providing life insurance cover under Postal Life Insurance (PLI) and Rural Postal Life Insurance (RPLI) and providing retail services like bill collection, sale of forms, etc. The postal service is under the Department of Posts, which is part of the Ministry of Communications of the Government of India. Generally referred to within India as "the post office", it is the most widely distributed postal system in the world. The Department of Posts (DoP), trading as India Post, is a government-operated postal system in India.
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