Lok Sabha Question No. 3137 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-03-14
Subject: Digitally Connected Post Offices
Ministry: COMMUNICATIONS
Asked by: BHAIRON PRASAD MISHRA

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT OF POSTS

## LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3137 TO BE ANSWERED ON 14 th  MARCH, 2018

## DIGITALLY CONNECTED POST OFFICES

†3137. SHRI BHAIRON PRASAD MISHRA:

Will the Minister of COMMUNICATIONS be pleased to state:

- (a) the State-wise total number of the post offices declared connected digitally in the country;
- (b) the State-wise number of the post offices yet to be made digitally literate; and
- (c) the time by which the remaining post offices are likely to be digitalised?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF STATE (IC) OF THE MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS & MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS (SHRI MANOJ SINHA)

- (a) All the 25,585 Departmental Post Offices are computerised in the country; 24,927 of  these  are  networked  under  single  Wide  Area  Network  (WAN).  Furthermore,  under 'Digital Advancement of Rural Post offices for a New India'(DARPAN) Project 58,722 Branch Post Offices out of a total of 1,29,380 Branch Post Offices are provided with SIM based Handheld devices for performing postal and financial transactions online.  Details are furnished in Annexure-I.
- (b) & (c) All  the  Departmental  Post  Offices  will  be  brought  under  single  WAN  as soon  as  telecom  connectivity  becomes  feasible.  The  rest  of  the  70,658  Branch  Post Offices are planned to be covered under DARPAN Project by July 2018.

Contd…2/-

## ANNEXURE - I

## Information on 'Digitally Connected Post Offices' as on 07.03.2018

| Sl. No.   | Name of the Postal Circle/State/UTs                                                              |   No. of Departmental Post Offices that are computerised |   No. of Departmenta l Post Offices digitally connected under Single WAN |   No. of Branch Post Offices |   No. of Branch Post offices digitized under DARPAN Project |
|-----------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------|
| 1         | Andhra Pradesh                                                                                   |                                                     1594 |                                                                     1583 |                         8782 |                                                        2229 |
| 2         | Assam                                                                                            |                                                      625 |                                                                      625 |                         3387 |                                                        3266 |
| 3         | Bihar                                                                                            |                                                     1058 |                                                                     1030 |                         7989 |                                                        2890 |
| 4         | Chhattisgarh                                                                                     |                                                      349 |                                                                      343 |                         2815 |                                                        1940 |
| 5         | Delhi                                                                                            |                                                      407 |                                                                      407 |                          147 |                                                          88 |
| 6         | Gujarat (including UTs Dadra & Nagar Haveli & Daman Diu)                                         |                                                     1341 |                                                                     1329 |                         7643 |                                                        6719 |
| 7         | Haryana                                                                                          |                                                      504 |                                                                      502 |                         2184 |                                                        2103 |
| 8         | Himachal Pradesh                                                                                 |                                                      469 |                                                                      457 |                         2319 |                                                        1866 |
| 9         | Jammu & Kashmir                                                                                  |                                                      266 |                                                                      256 |                         1436 |                                                         790 |
| 10        | Jharkhand                                                                                        |                                                      463 |                                                                      439 |                         2655 |                                                        2618 |
| 11        | Karnataka                                                                                        |                                                     1717 |                                                                     1712 |                         7949 |                                                        2554 |
| 12        | Kerala (including UT Lakshadweep)                                                                |                                                     1507 |                                                                     1498 |                         3554 |                                                        3435 |
| 13        | Madhya Pradesh                                                                                   |                                                     1021 |                                                                     1016 |                         7258 |                                                        5185 |
| 14        | Maharashtra (Including Goa State)                                                                |                                                     2216 |                                                                     2215 |                        10643 |                                                        1984 |
| 15        | North East (including Meghalaya, Manipur, Tripura, Nagaland, Mizoram & Arunachal Pradesh States) |                                                      340 |                                                                      267 |                         2585 |                                                         557 |
| 16        | Odisha                                                                                           |                                                     1204 |                                                                     1189 |                         6971 |                                                        2357 |
| 17        | Punjab (including UT Chandigarh)                                                                 |                                                      768 |                                                                      767 |                         3096 |                                                        3057 |
| 18        | Rajasthan                                                                                        |                                                     1335 |                                                                     1330 |                         8976 |                                                        5069 |
| 19        | Tamil Nadu (including UT Puducherry)                                                             |                                                     2834 |                                                                     2580 |                         9305 |                                                           0 |
| 20        | Telangana                                                                                        |                                                      852 |                                                                      852 |                         4936 |                                                        1841 |
| 21        | Uttarakhand                                                                                      |                                                      393 |                                                                      372 |                         2329 |                                                         619 |
| 22        | Uttar Pradesh                                                                                    |                                                     2554 |                                                                     2538 |                        15116 |                                                        7027 |
| 23        | West Bengal (including UT Andaman & Nicobar Island and Sikkim State)                             |                                                     1768 |                                                                     1620 |                         7305 |                                                         528 |
|           | Total                                                                                            |                                                    25585 |                                                                    24927 |                       129380 |                                                       58722 |

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