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Operational Post Offices in the Country – Number of employees working and post offices operational

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS
DEPARTMENT OF POSTS

LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 225

TO BE ANSWERED ON 7TH DECEMBER, 2022

OPERATIONAL POST OFFICES IN THE COUNTRY

225. MS. MIMI CHAKRABORTY:

Will the Minister of COMMUNICATIONS be pleased to state:

(a) the State-wise details of the number of post offices operational in the country;

(b) the State-wise details of the number of post-offices that are closed down during the last five years in the country;

(c) the number of employees working in postal department in the country;

(d) whether the Government has taken any effective step to use the existing infrastructure and land belonging to postal department under PPP model and if so, the details thereof; and

(e) the details of the total asset of postal department in the country, State-wise?

ANSWER

MINISTER OF STATE FOR COMMUNICATIONS (SHRI DEVUSINH CHAUHAN)

(a) The Postal Circle-wise details (including all States and Union Territories) of the number of post offices operational in the country are enclosed as Annexure-I.

(b) The Postal Circle- wise details (including all States and Union Territories) of the number of post offices closed down during the last five-years in the country are enclosed as Annexure-II.

(c) The total number of employees working in Postal Department is 4,00,909, which includes 2,37,978 Gramin Dak Sevaks.

(d) There is no proposal to use the existing infrastructure and land belonging to Postal Department under Public – Private Partnership (PPP) model.

(e) The details of the total assets belonging to Postal Department in the country, Postal Circle – wise (including all States and Union Territories), are enclosed as Annexure-III.

Annexure I

Sl No.	Name of the Postal Circle	Number of Post offices
1	Andhra Pradesh	10606
2	Assam	4005
3	Bihar	9302
4	Chhattisgarh	4299
5	Delhi	509
6	Gujarat (including Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu)	8844
7	Haryana	2694
8	Himachal Pradesh	2795
9	Jammu and Kashmir (including Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir and Union Territory of Ladakh)	1695
10	Jharkhand	4031
11	Karnataka	9617
12	Kerala (including Union Territory of Lakshadweep)	5063
13	Madhya Pradesh	8791
14	Maharashtra (including Goa)	13688
15	North-East (including Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Tripura, Mizoram and Nagaland)	2913
16	Odisha	8490
17	Punjab (including Union Territory of Chandigarh)	3834
18	Rajasthan	10290
19	Tamil Nadu (including Union Territory of Puducherry)	11864
20	Telangana	6212
21	Uttar Pradesh	17885
22	Uttarakhand	2722
23	West Bengal (including Sikkim and Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands)	9076
	Grand Total	1,59,225

Annexure II

Sl No.	Name of the Postal Circle	2017-18	2018-19	2019-20	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23 (Till date)	Total
1	Delhi	0	7	1	3	2	1	14
2	Haryana	3	1	0	1	1	4	10
3	Madhya Pradesh	1	2	4	1	0	0	8
4	Maharashtra (including Goa)	1	0	0	1	0	0	2
5	Telangana	2	0	0	0	1	0	3
	Grand Total	7	10	5	6	4	5	37

Annexure III

Sl No.	Name of the Postal Circle	Departmental Building	Departmental Vacant Plots
1	Andhra Pradesh	174	107
2	Assam	179	21
3	Bihar	193	63
4	Chhattisgarh	45	10
5	Delhi	129	13
6	Gujarat (including Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu)	321	54
7	Haryana	83	17
8	Himachal Pradesh	83	23
9	Jammu and Kashmir (including Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir and Union Territory of Ladakh)	35	6
10	Jharkhand	71	36
11	Karnataka	459	336
12	Kerala (including Union Territory of Lakshadweep)	258	139
13	Madhya Pradesh	201	46
14	Maharashtra (including Goa)	417	83
15	North-East (including Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Tripura, Mizoram and Nagaland)	99	20
16	Odisha	169	18
17	Punjab (including Union Territory of Chandigarh)	145	12
18	Rajasthan	385	136
19	Tamil Nadu (including Union Territory of Puducherry)	307	145
20	Telangana	165	110
21	Uttar Pradesh	329	77
22	Uttarakhand	55	19
23	West Bengal (including Sikkim and Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands)	278	82
	Grand Total	4580	1573

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