Indian Postal Department enhanced their services to Hi-tech by geo-tagging the post offices and has started to monitor the timely clearance of the letter boxes through a mobile application.
With the support of the Department of Space, India Post has geo-tagged over 1.5 lakh post offices on the indigenous Geo-Portal called BHUVAN
An Initiative to make use of Department of Space in different sectors
BHUVAN: 
- A Hindi word which mean Universe
- Mobile Application developed by ISRO
- Help people search the nearest post office and know about services and timings
- Providing visualisation services and earth observation data to users in public domain
History of BHUVAN:
Established in 2009 with simple display of satellite data and basic GIS functionality, now has more than 6,000 map services which are being used under various applications.
Data:
- Total Post offices: 1.55 Lakh
- Post offices in Rural Areas: more than 1.39 lakh
- Post offices Geo-tagged: 1.5 Lakh
- Remaining Post offices would be geo-tagged
Speeches by PM:
- Initiative is a part of Collaboration of Dept of Space
- About 1,50,000 post offices have been geotagged and their exact location on a GIS satellite imagery map along with photograph, services and office timings etc have been made available on the portal
Achievements of India Post:
- Core banking solution (CBS) for providing anywhere banking has been initiated in 21,319 post offices, covering more than 30 crore Post Office savings bank accounts
- 910 post office ATMs have been installed across the country
- A mobile app is being used for monitoring timely clearance of letter boxes in more than 16 cities
Department of Space:
- Headquarters – Bengaluru
- Secretary – A. S. Kiran Kumar
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