Post Office: Proposal for New Post Office, Details of Post Offices in Country and Shortage of Employees & Dak Sevaks

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO 2394

ANSWERED ON 05.02.2014

OPENING OF POST OFFICES

2394 . KAMLA DEVI PATLE

Will the Minister of COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY be pleased to state:-

(a) the number of post offices in the rural and urban areas in the country, circle/category-wise;

(b) the number of post offices opened in villages during each of the last three years and the current year, circle-wise;

(c) whether the Government has received proposals for opening of post offices and branch post offices in the country separately in urban areas and villages from various States including Chhattisgarh;

(d) if so, the details thereof and the reaction of the Government thereon; and

(e) whether there is a shortage of postal employees and dak sevaks in post offices and if so, the details thereof along with the action taken by the Government in this regard?

ANSWER

THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (DR. (SMT.) KILLI KRUPARANI)

(a) The Circle-wise and category-wise number of post offices in rural and urban areas in the country as on 31.03.2013 is at Annexure-I.

(b) The Circle-wise number of post offices opened in villages during each of the last three years and current year is at Annexure-II.

(c)&(d) Yes, Madam. The Circle-wise number of proposals received for opening of post offices including branch post offices and status of action taken on the proposals is at Annexure-III.

(e) No, Madam. Vacancies, whenever arises, is due to reasons like promotion, retirement, death or leave. Vacant positions are managed through ad-hoc appointments by redistribution and combination of duties and paid substitutes in post offices for delivery of postal services. Filling up of such vacancies is an on-going process. Departmental Promotion Committees are held at regular intervals to fill up promotional posts and Departmental examinations are held wherever prescribed and action is taken regularly for holding examinations to fill up posts through direct recruitment according to the provisions of the Recruitment Rules.

Shortage of Grameen Dak Sevaks in post offices does occur from time to time on attaining the age of superannuation, absorption to regular departmental posts, resignation, death, etc. The shortage is met through on going process of engagement, combination of duties or alternatively by allowing the Grameen Dak Sevaks of the neighbouring offices to function as part of stop gap arrangement.

As on 01.01.2013, there had been a shortfall of 12.40% of the sanctioned posts of approved categories of Grameen Dak Sevaks in the country and instructions have already been issued to concerned Postal Circles for filling up of all vacant posts of different categories of Grameen Dak Sevaks within a set time frame after following provisions of the recruitment rules and policy guidelines on the subjects.

LOK SABHA ANNEXURED UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2394 DATED 5.02.2014 

Annexure-I

Circle-wise and Category-wise Number of Post Offices functional in the country (as on 31.3.2013)

S.No.	Name of the Circle	HOs		SOs		EDSOs		EDBOs		Total		Total No. ofPost Offices
		Urban	Rural	Urban	Rural	Urban	Rural	Urban	Rural	Urban	Rural
1	Andhra Pradesh	90	5	970	1373	0	0	275	13429	1335	14807	16142
2	Assam	19	0	217	390	0	0	136	3250	372	3640	4012
3	Bihar	30	1	398	617	0	0	45	7969	473	8587	9060
4	Chhattisgarh	10	0	213	120	0	0	11	2790	234	2910	3144
5	Delhi	12	0	409	4	0	0	73	79	494	83	577
6	Gujarat	34	0	658	643	0	0	99	7545	791	8188	8979
7	Haryana	16	0	300	177	0	0	30	2146	346	2323	2669
8	Himachal Pradesh	15	3	98	348	0	0	6	2308	119	2659	2778
9	Jammu & Kashmir	9	0	164	90	0	0	28	1405	201	1495	1696
10	Jharkhand	13	0	216	226	0	0	34	2608	263	2834	3097
11	Karnataka	58	0	830	827	0	0	206	7775	1094	8602	9696
12	Kerala	45	6	473	982	0	0	338	3220	856	4208	5064
13	Madhya Pradesh	43	0	694	325	0	0	107	7148	844	7473	8317
14	Maharashtra	61	0	1135	1016	0	0	107	10534	1303	11550	12853
15	North East	9	0	139	181	0	0	82	2503	230	2684	2914
16	Orissa	35	0	500	660	0	1	49	6920	584	7581	8165
17	Punjab	22	0	410	326	0	0	14	3078	446	3404	3850
18	Rajasthan	47	1	586	711	0	0	34	8948	667	9660	10327
19	Tamil Nadu	94	0	1348	1317	0	0	356	8946	1798	10263	12061
20	Uttarakhand	13	0	177	198	0	0	14	2317	204	2515	2719
21	Uttar Pradesh	71	0	1607	875	0	0	249	14869	1927	15744	17671
22	West Bengal	47	0	945	766	0	0	119	7188	1111	7954	9065
	Total	793	16	12487	12172	0	1	2412	126975	15692	139164	154856

HO- Head Post Office 
SO- Sub Post Office 
EDSO-Extra Departmental Sub Post Office, 
EDBO-Extra Departmental Branch Post Office 

ANNEXURE-II

Circle-wise number of Branch Post Offices opened during each of last three years 2010-11, 2011-12, 2012-13 & 2013-14 (upto 31.12.2013)

Sl. No.	Name of the Circles	2010-11	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14 (upto 31.12.2013)
1	Andhra Pradesh	11	5	5	6
2	Assam	8	3	4	0
3	Bihar	8	3	3	1
4	Chhattisgarh	1	3	15	2
5	Delhi	2	1	0	0
6	Gujarat	9	1	4	3
7	Haryana	8	3	4	2
8	Himachal Pradesh	6	3	3	2
9	Jammu & Kashmir	6	0	1	1
10	Jharkhand	10	3	5	2
11	Karnataka	3	3	6	2
12	Kerala	4	3	2	0
13	Madhya Pradesh	2	5	4	1
14	Maharashtra	4	7	4	1
15	North East	8	3	6	0
16	Orissa	10	3	4	0
17	Punjab	8	4	4	3
18	Rajasthan	14	6	4	0
19	Tamil Nadu	14	7	4	3
20	Uttarakhand	6	3	4	3
21	Uttar Pradesh	9	6	3	2
22	West Bengal	8	4	3	0
	Total	159	79	92	34

ANNEXURE-III

Circle-wise number of proposals received for opening of post offices including branch post offices and status of action on the proposals

Sl. No.	Name of the Circles	No. of proposalsreceived	Status of the proposals
1	Andhra Pradesh	54	54 - Justified and post offices opened
2	Assam	0	0
3	Bihar	0	0
4	Chhattisgarh	14	6-Justified and post offices opened 8 - Under examination
5	Delhi	98	19-Justified and post offices opened 4- Under examination 75- Not justified
6	Gujarat	9	9- Under examination
7	Haryana	0	0
8	Himachal Pradesh	10	10 –Justified and post offices opened
9	Jammu & Kashmir	33	33- Under examination
10	Jharkhand	6	6-Under examination
11	Karnataka	20	2-Justified and post offices opened 6-Not justified 3-Justified and opening of post offices are under process 9- Under examination
12	Kerala	4	2-Justified and post offices opened 2-Justified and opening of post offices are under process
13	Madhya Pradesh	1	1-Under examination
14	Maharashtra	15	3-Justified and opening of post offices are under process 5-Under examination 7-Not justified
15	North East	6	6- Under examination
16	Orissa	13	13- Under examination
17	Punjab	4	2-Not justified 2-Under examination
18	Rajasthan	33	1-Justified and post office opened 20-Under examination 12- Not justified
19	Tamil Nadu	33	5-Justified and post offices opened 24-Not justified 4-Under examination
20	Uttarakhand	0	0
21	Uttar Pradesh	18	3-Justified and post offices opened 6- Under examination 9-Not justified
22	West Bengal	10	10- Under examination

Annexure Source: http://164.100.47.132/Annexture/lsq15/15/au2394.htm