20/12/2024
100-Day Action Plan
The 100-day action plan of the Department of Posts is aimed at transforming service delivery and enhancing efficiency through the following three initiatives to benefit the nation and its citizens:
(i) 5000 Dak Chaupals across the country: This drive aims to bring financial services and citizen-centric government services directly to rural areas improving accessibility and convenience. The goal of this initiative is to bring government services directly to every citizen's doorstep. As such, it is not an employment driven scheme. but a service provision scheme. During the 100 days campaign, 16,014 Dak Chaupals were held, with a total participation of 9,31,541 Persons.
(ii) On boarding of 3000 new exporters on the Dak Niryat kendra (DNK) portal: Department aimed to register & onboard 3000 new exporters on DNK portal to bolster rural exports by supporting small-scale exporters. This initiative provides essential services including documentation assistance, market information, bar-coded label printing, and paperless customs clearance. Aligned with the 'One District- One Product' initiative, this scheme will promote local products, contributing to economic growth and rural development. Progress is monitored through dashboard on regular basis. During the 100 days campaign a total of more than 3400 exporters have been onboarded.
(iii) Proof of concept (PoC) in 10 villages and 1 city for development of a standardized, geo-coded addressing system in India: This initiative aims to provide the proof of concept for simplified addressing solutions for citizen-centric delivery of public and private services. During the 100 days campaign, PoC is complete in 10 villages. The Department has released a beta version of the National Level Addressing Grid named ‘DIGIPIN’ for public feedback, encouraging industry leaders, technical institutes, Central, State and Local government, and the public to provide their valuable input.
A departmental dashboard is used to monitor the progress of the 100-day action plan. The funds for the 100-day action plan are available within the budgetary allocation to the Department of Posts.
This information was given by the Minister of State for Communications and Rural Development, Dr.Pemmasani Chandra Sekhar in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today.
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