Manipur joins National Postal Week which starts from today. The week which will be organizing various events during the whole week was inaugurated by Vinod Kumar, Director (posts) at Head Post Office, Imphal.
Today, on its first day, a meeting of post Forum which is an initiative by India Post to exchange views with important customers was organized. Persons from various field of Sports, Media personalities, Singers, Insurance sector, Teachers and Advocates actively took part in the meeting.
Kh. Ningthem, Sr.Coach Youth Affairs and Sports (YAS), Khogendro Khomdram, editor Sangai express, S. Nabachandra Sharma, playback singer, Heer Kamei, Retd. Divisional Manager, Oriental Insurance, S. Rupachandra, Asstt. Solicitor General and Md. Raheijuddin Sheikh, Principal, Manipur College, Imphal were among the core participants in the discussion.
Speaking in the occasion Vinod Kumar said he was pleased for the suggestions regarding further improvement in postal system by members and several customers who participated in the event.
He further said, the forum has given a fresh breath of life as far as interaction between consumers postal authorities are concerned. Now the postal India is now keen to have this forum on a regular basis which is also the only forum where there is direct interface with the customers which was started on 10th of September this year, said Vinod.
On the other hand, as part of today’s event, more than 30 students from different schools were given a training session on how to write letter, correct address and use of PINCODE while posting materials.
While interacting with media persons, regarding the importance of this training session, Vinod said, “Young students are the future of our Country, speed with accuracy is the key point in present era for fast communication. Hence, this young generation should know how they can help themselves to communicate in fast manner by adopting simple but useful method of writing address and use of right kind of stationary”.
Describing the week, he said, all the postal division and Sub-division and branches of the state will be observing each coming days of this week as starting from today as, World Post Day, Saving Bank Day, Mail Day, Philately Day, Postal Life Insurance Day, and Business Development Meet Day.
He further said that, the week will also feature events like customer meet, tree plantation, rural postal life insurance mela in various districts of Manipur will also be organized by the offices of Manipur Postal Division.
It may be mentioned that, India has the largest Postal Network in the world with over 1,54,882 post Offices as on March 3,1 2014 of which 89.86% are in rural areas.
