POSTAL TRAINING POLICY, 2012 Section 1: Preamble 1.1 Department of Posts is committed to provide basic postal facilities throughout the country at an affordable price. A network of over 1, 55,000 Post Offices, the largest in the world, of which more than 139,000 are in the rural areas, is indicative of this commitment. In terms of the workforce too Department of Posts is the largest amongst all the Postal Administrations of the world, having a workforce of 206,000 departmental employees and 269,000 Gramin Dak Sevaks, as on March end 2010. 1.2 Rapid introduction of information technology has not only changed the way post offices do business the world over, but also the kind of business that the post offices do. In this era of fast developing information and communications technology, large scale induction and assimilation of modern means of communication has become vital for the sustenance and growth of the Department of Posts. 1.3 The National Training Policy of the Govt. of India was ...
