PRAYAGRAJ: In a major initiative that will particularly benefit rural residents, the postal department has decided to rope in a strong team of postmen to update the mobile number of residents or link the same with their Aadhaar cards.
Now, the postman will be able to do this right at the doorstep of residents who had to stand in long queues at banks and Aadhaar correction centres for the same earlier.
India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) has started rolling out this facility in all the branch post offices of Allahabad division of Indian Post from this month, informed senior superintendent of post (SSP), Sanjay D Akhade.
The mobile updation service will be provided through the IPPB branch and more than 350 Grameen Dak Sevaks across Prayagraj and Kausambhi districts.
This new service will especially benefit residents of villages whose Aadhaar cards often lack mobile numbers linked to them, and it’s a struggle for them to get details updated on the cards or procure a duplicate card in case of losing the original.
As part of Child Enrolment Lite Client (CELC) services, IPPB offers Aadhaar services through banking service providers via mobile handsets in post offices and at doorsteps of clients.
Developed by Unique Identification Authority of India, CELC service enables citizens to add/update mobile number with Aadhaar.
It also helps in enrolling children below 5 years for issuance of their Aadhaar cards.
Currently, IPPB is providing only mobile updation services for customers.
It would roll out the facility of enrolling children below 5 years later, informed the SSP.
Speaking on the initiative, Akhade told TOI, “Through Aadhaar, the government has been able to reach out to crores of people and facilitate delivery of direct benefit transfer under various schemes such as LPG-Pahal, MGNREGS etc into their bank accounts.
Mobile updation is another significant customer-centric initiative from IPPB that will help the financially disadvantaged citizens in underbanked and unbanked areas of the districts.
Now citizens will be able to access this important service through the strong and robust network of our banking service providers and post offices in the district.” IPPB has been established under the Department of Posts, Ministry of Communication with 100% equity owned by Government of India.
It was launched by PM Narendra Modi on September 1, 2018.
The fundamental mandate of IPPB is to remove barriers for the unbanked and underbanked, and reach the last mile leveraging a network comprising 1,55,000 post offices (1,35,000 in rural areas) and 300,000 postal employees across India.