India, March 12 -- The Government of India issued the following news release:
There are 1,64,987 post offices (Head Post Offices, Sub-Post Offices and Branch Post Offices) operational in the country, out of which 15,823 post offices are functioning in urban areas and 1,49,164 post offices are functioning in rural areas.
All Departmental post offices in the country have been computerized and networked under the Information Technology (IT) Modernization Project. Under IT 2.0, Branch post offices functioning in rural areas of the country have been provided with mobile devices for carrying out online postal, financial and insurance transactions.
1,63,939 post offices have been enabled to provide banking and other digital services under the I...