Technology developed by Mysore PTC to be launched on January 1, 2008

Mysore is likely to emerge as a “technology hub” for postal services in South Asia. With the Postal Training Centre (PTC) here already in the forefront of developing innovative technologies for the improvement of postal administration in 22 postal circles across the country, India Post is strongly vying for bringing the proposed South Asian Postal Technology Centre to Mysore.

India Post has sent a formal request to the Bern-based Universal Postal Union (UPU) and the Asia Pacific Postal Centre in Bangkok for considering Mysore as the venue for establishing the premier centre to train officers from South Asian countries in developing state-of-the-art technology in postal matters.

Technology centre

As a first step, India Post, which functions under the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India, is establishing the National Postal Technology Centre on the premises of PTC in Mysore. The centre, which will be one of its kind, will be developed as a “centre of excellence” to impart specialised training to the personnel of postal circles in developing technologies such as developing software and custom-made computers to suit postal services.

The Mysore PTC has been training postal employees from several African countries and Thailand. Significantly, the postal departments in countries such as Nepal, the Maldives and Bhutan are using the software developed by the PTC to improve their postal administration.

The PTC in Mysore has been training people from several foreign countries in postal matters, developing specialised courses for them. “It is one such PTC among such centres located at Vadodara, Darbhanga, Saharanpur, Madurai and Guwahati, that stands out. Mysore centre is the only centre in the country which develops postal software though there are no posts reserved for such activity,” Ms. Datta said.

Ms. Datta, who is all praise for the Mysore PTC, said Meghdooth software used in almost all postal circles in India was developed by Mysore PTC.

e-intimation

The Mysore PTC has now developed a technology wherein the delivery of postal articles will be intimated to customers electronically. Called Electronic Intimation of Delivery, the intimation on the delivery of postal articles in bulk is sent to the e-mail address of the customers. The technology will be launched on January 1, 2008.