Postal Dept to start Express Mail Corridor across state

Tribune News Service

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Chandigarh, October 16

In order to expedite Mail, Speed Post and Parcel services as well as to meet the aspirations of micro, medium and small enterprises in Punjab for speedy transmission and distribution of their goods, the Department of Posts is planning to start an Express Mail Corridor through direct mail motor transmission linkage from Chandigarh to Amritsar connecting major manufacturing centres of Ludhiana and Jalandhar.

On the occasion of Business Development Day of the National Postal Week 2016, PK Swain, Chief Postmaster General, Punjab and UT Chandigarh, flagged off the mail motor from Chandigarh on October 15 at 10.30 pm for Ludhiana in the first stretch.

Manisha Bansal Badal, Director, Postal Services (HQ), Punjab Circle, Radhika Dhir, SSPOs, Chandigarh Division, DK Tripathi, SSRM LD Division, Ludhiana, were also present.

Swain informed that this direct mail motor service would provide much faster and reliable speed post, e-commerce and parcel services within the state to bolster industrial and commerce activities. This mail motor service will be extended to Jalandhar and Amritsar very shortly.

On the concluding day of the National Postal Week 2016, Punjab Postal Circle, organised a blood donation camp for the postal staff at Sandesh Bhawan, Chandigarh, on October 15 in association with Government Multi Speciality Hospital, Sector 16, Chandigarh.

Prof. Anil Kumar Gupta, medical superintendent, PGI, encouraged the donors and stated that there was no substitute to blood and voluntary donation is a noble service to the society and nation.

On the occasion, Swain apprised the gathering about the recent transformation of India Post under IT modernization project and stated that post offices in India were taking up new assignments and challenges to meet the societal requirement, while contributing to accelerated economic development of the nation with equitable growth at same breath.