Friday, 21^st October 2022

Chief Postmaster General, Maharashtra Circle, Veena Srinivas addressed a press meet on the Special Campaign 2.0 Mumbai, today. She enlightened on the activities being carried out in the Maharashtra Postal Circle.

Addressing media persons, she spoke about timely and effective disposal of public grievances; references from Members of Parliament; State Governments; Inter-Ministerial Consultations; Parliamentary Assurances; PMO references; conduct of cleanliness drives; review and weeding out of files; disposal of scarp; freeing up of space and putting it to constructive use.

Government of India had launched the Special Campaign in 2021 which was successfully organized from 2^nd October to 31st October 2021 in the Department of Posts.  This year, Government of India has launched its sequel 2.0. which is being undertaken by Department of Posts from 2^nd October to 31^st October 2022.

In respect of public grievances, she mentioned that 8039 complaints were received since April 2022, of these 8005 i.e. 99% of the grievances were settled. The public grievance are monitored through the CPGRAMS which provides real time redressal and online monitoring of the disposal and pendency of these grievances.

A special emphasis was laid for cleaning of all the post offices/Postal colonies and weeding out of the records in the Circle. A video clip on shredding of the records and a clip on the revamping of the Vengurla Post Office under Sindhudurg Postal Division was played during the meet.  She appraised the media on the several other initiatives/activities carried out in the Circle viz Blood Donation Camps, awareness of TB, Cancer awareness camps, Tree plantation drives, Saving Bank & IPPB campaigns etc.  All the campaigns are closely monitored and supervised by the Senior Officers of the units.

She also mentioned of the 20.17 Lakhs saving bank accounts opened in the circle. The drive/campaign conducted during 12^th September to 30^th September 2022 gave a boost to garner around 3 lakh accounts. Various camps conducted in sensitive areas in Nagpur Region and at Kamatipura (Mumbai region) helped in boosting these achievements.

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