In the current fiscal year, the Department of Postal Services had initiated the process to declare 50 district and local post offices, including Gorkha, as smart post offices.
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The District Post Office Gorkha has been declared a smart post office. Minister for Communications and Information Technology Jagdish Kharel announced the smart post office on Monday.
In the current fiscal year, the Postal Services Department had started the process of declaring 50 districts and local post offices, including Gorkha, as smart post offices.
With the necessary training and online system for smart post offices being organized, Gorkha became the first out of 50 to be declared smart post offices, said Binod Prasad Gaire, the head of the office.
‘The main task for smart post offices is to systematize the post office’s information system,’ he said. ‘After the information system is systematized, anyone who sends a letter can see from their mobile where the letter has reached, when it has reached the hands of the concerned body, and for this, it can also be viewed through the district post office’s website.’
Gaire said that the information management system has been systematized in all 11 local level municipal post offices in the district. In addition, postmen and couriers have been provided with driving training and training and information about computers and online. "After taking two-wheeler driving training, I have been able to deliver letters within an hour, and I don't have to walk for a day carrying letters," he said.
Now, he said, preparations are also being made for further streamlining the postal service. "If we can work on service delivery aspects such as certificates, licenses, passports, etc., the people will get easy and simple services, we have also started discussions on such issues," he said. Now, he said, an expanded and developed postal service has been launched.
