Kohima: The Kohima Head Post Office of Nagaland on Thursday achieve the crown of becoming the first Post Office with Core Banking facilities of the North Eastern Region and it will have an Automated Teller Machines (ATM) within few days.
Inaugurating the Core Banking Solutions and Sukanya Samriddhi Account at the Head Post Office at Kohima this morning the Postmaster General of North East Circle, Shillong I. Pungernungsang said that the Postal Department of India is gradually stepping towards the banking sector for last three years and today is a red letter day for the Postal history to become the first Core Banking Post Office of the North East at Kohima head Post Office.
He said that the Postal Department of the Government of India is giving more importance to convert the existing Post Offices of the NE Region into banking service with core banking system to reach the masses in the remote areas of the step.
He also announced that the next step in Nagaland will be in Mokokchung and Tuensang and gradually covered all the districts of Nagaland.
He also informed that at present three ATM machines have been granted for Kohima, which will be set up within days, next is Mokokchung and Tuensang.
He also said that saving system of money has gaining momentum throughout the country, especially in Nagaland after the Nagaland Government took initiative and awareness programmes by various banks in the remote areas, however, the banks could not able to touch the remote rural masses due to limited facilities. But the existing Post Offices, especially in remote areas of the state will able to fulfill the need of remote masses with core banking system.
Pungernungsang thanked the staff members of Kohima Post Office for their hard work to make the branch ‘online’ without any outside assistance and appealed all the staff members of the Postal Department of Nagaland to create awareness among the remote rural masses about the Postal Banking Services and to access banking facilities in the Post Offices.
Inaugurating the Sukanya Samriddhi Account (SSA) at the same premises, Pungernungsang gave away the first SSA account Pass Book to a two-year old girl child as the symbolic inauguration.
He said people are thinking that sons are like ‘suns,’ but daughters are like flowers to spread essence of beauty to make all happy.
He exhorted the people in the function to spread the message that girls are more valuable for the society and it is the duty of all parents to think about their future of their girl children.
He appealed to all to grab the opportunity of SSA, which has given many facilities and high interest for the improvement of whole academic life and even after their marriage.
Earlier, the Director of Postal Service of Nagaland Som Kamei welcomed the guests and appealed to the people of Nagaland to take full advantage of the Postal Banking Service and the SSA scheme for the betterment of everyone’s future. (UNI)
