Tag: India

India Post may be selected for outsourcing

Posted by | Dec 17, 2007 | |

IMG Khan, Secretary to the Department of Posts aid the Universal Postal Union (UPU) is likely to prefer India’s Department of Posts, one of the biggest postal services in the world, for outsourcing postal services across the world.

In his inaugural address after laying the foundation stone for the Technology Development Centre on the Postal Training Centre campus here, Khan said he held talks with the Director General of Universal Postal Union, Switzerland, and informed him that the Union could decentralise its services to India.

“The India Post is capable of taking the challenge and help provide technology services, maitain and implement them,” he stated. The secretary said the software technology developed at the PTC in Mysore had gone overseas.

Soon, the South Asia Postal Union will come into existence. India will be in a position to offer more technological solutions and services for the World when the Technology Development Centre in Mysore operates to its full strength.

The Director General of Universal Postal Union was positive on India’s strengths. The UPU, in all probability, will decentralise its services to India Post soon, he hoped.

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

Posted by | Dec 12, 2007 | |

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.

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.

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Indian Post Offices May Sell Over-the-Counter Drugs

Posted by | Dec 5, 2007 | |

Over-the-counter (OTC) drugs may soon be available in post offices across the country if an initiative by the drug makers and the government fructify. In a bid increase the access of essential drugs to consumers, pharma companies are in talks with the government to use post offices to sell OTC drugs.

The industry is also considering using the extensive marketing reach of global beverages giant PepsiCo in India for a similar initiative. “The government has around 1.5 lakh post offices across the country. We have been in talks with the government to use the network to sell OTC drugs and hope to start a pilot test within six months,” Organisation of Pharmaceutical Producers of India (OPPI) president Ranjit Shahani told mediapersons on the sidelines of the India Economic Summit.

The initiative is taking time as drugs and post offices are with different ministries, and the proposal needs separate approval from both the departments. However, the pharma industry is planning to start a pilot test in some cities in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh soon. OTC drugs are medicines like contraceptives, essential cold and cough medicines, among others which consumers can buy without a doctor’s prescription.

Apart from being educated, postmen have good relationships with consumers and drugs manufactures can leverage this network which is now under-utilised, Mr Shahani added. Pharma companies are also exploring a arrangement with the PepsiCo to use the latter’s network to sell OTC drugs. “One can find Pepsi across the nook and corner of the country. We have put up a proposal to Pepsi Co to use their network in India. We have received a positive response.”

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UPS unveils strategic alliance in India

Posted by | Dec 3, 2007 | |

UPS Jetair Express has announced a strategic alliance with AFL “that will significantly expand accessibility to UPS services in India while providing export capabilities to AFL”.

The alliance will take effect from January 1, 2008, when all AFL WiZ Express Centres across India will promote US-based UPS’s international express delivery service to customers in that country.

Under the new set-up, UPS Jetair Express will continue to operate as an international express delivery service provider connecting India with the global marketplace, while AFL maintains its function as a domestic service provider connecting businesses across India.

The new alliance will also allow AFL to pick up international export shipments on behalf of UPS destined for the more than 200 countries and territories served by the latter. UPS access points for customers with international express delivery requirements will exponentially increase to more than 200 locations in India.

UPS will provide training to all AFL sales staff to ensure that global service standards are maintained.

Over the last 60 years, AFL claims to have pioneered and led three different segments of the logistics industry in India – air freight forwarding, international air express service and third party logistics. In 2001, it added a domestic air express service.

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