Malkangiri: Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw inaugurated Friday new postal departmental buildings in this district and elsewhere in Odisha. Vaishnaw, the Union Minister for Railways, Communication, Electronics and Information Technology inaugurated the main post office in Malkangiri district, Salapada sub-post office in Keonjhar district, Manamunda sub-post office in Boudh district and Gopalpur sub-post office in Balasore district.
These post offices were earlier functioning from rented buildings. Under the short and long term schemes of the central government departmental buildings are being built for post offices and are being thrown open to the general people, the Vaishnaw said after the inauguration.
Ashiwini Vaishnaw was physically present here and inaugurated the other postal office buildings through video conferencing. He stated that the ‘Sukanya Samriddhi’ scheme for the girl child is very popular in Odisha and the Department of Posts has left the window open for financial inclusion across all age groups through various small savings schemes.
In addition, postal life insurance and rural postal life Insurance are some of the ‘very good’ services provided by the Postal Department, Vaishnaw said.
With the functioning of common service centre at post offices, the people are availing the service of depositing various utility bills, booking of train tickets, payment of insurance premium among others, Vaishnaw pointed out.