Organization of the Department

                                    ORGANISATION

ð  The postal department is under the administrative control of the director general of posts, New Delhi.

ð  The Directorate General functions as the Chairman of the postal board and secretary of the department.

ð  First post office started from 01.04.1854.

ð  The          Postal    Service Board,   the         apex      management     body      of            the Department, comprises the Chairman and six Members.

The six members of the Board

1. Personnel                                           2. Operations

                        3.Technology                                          4. Postal Life Insurance

5. Banking & DBT                                 6. Planning

Country is divided into 23 circles as shown below,

SL NO	NAME OF THE CIRCLE	ADMINISTRATIVE JURISDICTION	NAME OF THE HEAD QUARTERS
01	Andhra Pradesh	Andhra Pradesh	Vijayawada – 520 001
02	Assam	Assam	Guwahati – 781 001
03	Bihar	Bihar	Patna – 800 001
04	Chattisgarh	Chattisgarh	Raipur – 490 042
05	Delhi	Delhi	New Delhi – 110 001
06	Gujarat	Gujarat, Daman & Diu, Dadra Nagar Haveli	Ahmedabad -380 001
07	Haryana	Haryana	Ambala – 133 001
08	Himachal Pradesh	Himachal Pradesh	Shimla – 171 001
09	Jammu & Kashmir	Jammu & Kashmir	Srinagr – 190 001
10	Jharkhand	Jharkhand	Ranchi – 834 001
11	Karnataka	Karnataka	Bengaluru – 560 001
12	Kerala	Kerala, Lakshwadweep	Trivandrum – 695 001
13	Madhya Pradesh	Madhya Pradesh	Bhopal – 462 001
14	Maharashtra	Maharashtra, Goa	Mumbai – 400 001
15	North Eastern	Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Tripura, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Manipur	Shilling – 793 001
16	Orissa	Orissa	Bhubaneshwar -751 001
17	Punjab	Punjab & Chandigarh	Chandigarh – 160 017
18	Rajasthan	Rajasthan	Jaipur – 302 001
19	Tamil Nadu	Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry	Chennai – 600 001
20	Telangana	Telangana	Hyderabad – 500 001
21	Uttar Pradesh	Uttar Pradesh	Lucknow – 226 001
22	Uttaranchal	Uttaranchal	Dehradun – 248 001
23	West Bengal	West Bengal, Andaman Nicobar, Sikkim	Kolkata – 700 001

 

One base circle named as “ARMY POSTAL SERVICE” corps for providing postal services to armed forces functioning at New Delhi.  Is controlled by “Addl. Director General, APS, New Delhi”.

In each circle there are a number of postal divisions under the charge of senior superintendents or superintendents of post offices who directly control the working of all the post offices under their jurisdiction.

The RMS (Railway mail service) offices and sections are similarly controlled by the senior superintendents or superintendents RMS in each circle. 

ð  One Base Circle named as ARMY POSTAL SERVICE CORPS for providing postal services to armed forces functioning at NEW DELHI.

ð  He is assisted by Deputy Director General, Army Postal Service (in the rank of Brigadier) at Army Head Quartes.

ð  The two Command Based Post Offices at Delhi and Kolkata and Army Postal Service Centre at Kamptee Nagpur are commanded by Commandants in the rank of Colonel. The Officers Commanding Corps/Divisional/Area/Border Roads/Assam Rifles/Air Force Postal Units in the rank of Lt Col/ Major/Captain monitor the functioning of Field Post Offices under their control and discharge the functions of the Postal Advisor to the General-Officer-Commanding. Two Central Base Post Offices and Section Base Post Offices serve as the nodal points for mail processing.

ð  The purpose of base circle is to cater the postal communication needs to armed forces.

ð  Army Postal Service provides Postal, Remittance, Savings &  Insurance services to Army, Indian Navy, Air Force and Paramilitary forces personnel through 500 Field Post Offices established across the country. It also provides cover to Indian troops deployed with United Nations Peace Keeping Forces abroad.

ð  Previously Money Orders and VP articles were not booked to Army Post Offices. Now they are booked to Army Post Offices.

Postal Services Board

ð  Shri. Pradipta Kumar Bisoi​, Secretary, Department of Posts & Chairperson, Postal Services Board

ð ​​​​​​​​​Sh Vineet Pandey, Director General (Posts) 

ð  Dr. Charles Lobo​, Member (Operations)

ð Ms Smita Kumar, Member (Technology)

ð Shri  Ashok kumar poddar, Additional Director General (Coordination)

ð Dr. Santosh Kumar Kamila ,​ Member (Personnel)

ð Ms. Sandhya Rani​, Member (Banking & DBT)​​

ð Shri  Sukhdev Raj​​​, Member (Planning & HRD)

ð  Shri  Alok Sharma ,​Member (PLI) & Chairman, PLI Investment Board

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