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BHARAT SANCHAR NIGAM LIMITED

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BHARAT SANCHAR NIGAM LIMITED Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) was incorporated on September 15, 2000. It took over the business of providing of telecom services and network management from the erstwhile Government of India’s Departments of Telecom Services (DTS) (DoT) and Telecom Operations (DTO), with effect from October 1, 2000 on going concern basis. It is one of the largest and leading public sector units providing comprehensive range of telecom services in India. Its logo has a grey coloured globe circumnavigated by red and blue arrows in opposite directions. Below this is the acronym BSNL in blue colour and at the bottom is its motto ‘Connecting India’ is written in black. https://portal.bsnl.in/myportal/ http://www.bsnl.co.in:9080/opencms/bsnl/BSNL/about_us/company/about_bsnl.html https://www.scribd.com/doc/298953769/Swamy-s-Symbols-of-India-Volume-1  

RURAL POSTAL LIFE INSURANCE

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RURAL POSTAL LIFE INSURANCE Rural Postal Life Insurance (RPLI) came into being as a sequel to the recommendations of the  Official Committee for Reforms in the Insurance Sector (Malhotra Committee). The Committee had observed in 1993 that only 22percent of the insurable population in this country had been insured; life insurance funds accounted for only 10 percent of the gross household savings.  The Committee had observed that Rural Branch Postmasters who enjoy a position of trust  in the community  have the capacity to canvass life insurance business within their respective areas. The Government accepted the recommendations of Malhotra Committee  and allowed Postal Life Insurance to extend its coverage to the rural areas to transact life insurance business with effect from March 24, 1995, mainly because of the vast network of Post Offices in the rural areas and low cost of operations. The prime objective of the scheme is to provide insurance cover to the rural public in general and t

POSTAL LIFE INSURANCE

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POSTAL LIFE INSURANCE Postal Life Insurance (PLI) was introduced on February 1, 1884 with the express approval of the Secretary of State (for India) to Her Majesty, the Queen Empress of India. It was essentially a scheme of State Insurance mooted by the then Director General of Post Offices, Mr. F.R. Hogg in 1881 as  a welfare scheme for the benefit of Postal employees and later extended to the employees of Telegraph department in 1888. In 1894, PLI extended insurance cover to female employees of P & T Department at a time when no other insurance company covered female lives. It is the oldest Life insurer in this country. In the beginning, the upper limit of life insurance was only INR4000 - which has now increased to INR10 lakhs for all schemes combined - Endowment Assurance and Whole Life Assurance. It now covers employees of Central and State governments, Central and State public sector undertakings, universities, government aided educational institutions, nationalized banks, lo

Instant Money Order

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INSTANT MONEY ORDER The instant domestic money transfer service is a service offerred by India Post. Its  Instant Money Order - iMO, the instant online money transfer service that is instant, convenient, reliable and affordable. The iMO is an instant web based money transfer service through Post Offices (iMO Centre) in India between two resident individuals in Indian territory. One can transfer money from INR1,000 to 50,000  from designated iMO Post Offices. It is simple to send and receive money. Its logo has ‘iMO’ written in white in postal red background. https://www.indiapost.gov.in/VAS/Pages/faqs.aspx?Category=Jgo4qG+ZxEc3wHD7ZtUU9NThIOtpzsS7xyOeUQ0oEgE/nXKKEvZzW0TQ6dVijmOt1OEg62nOxLszjBaEP74NcA == https://www.indiapost.gov.in/Financial/pages/content/imo.aspx http://indiapost.gov.in/IMOS.aspx https://www.scribd.com/doc/298953769/Swamy-s-Symbols-of-India-Volume-1  

EXPRESS PARCEL POST

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EXPRESS PARCEL POST Express Parcel Post is a service for sending the parcels upto 35 kg within India and is operated by the India Post. It is a fast and reliable sevice. Its logo has ‘Express’ written in italics on top and ‘Parcel’ and ‘Post’ written in reverse in red and blue respectively.   https://www.indiapost.gov.in/MBE/pages/content/parcel.aspx http://indiapost.gov.in/ExpressParcel.aspx https://www.scribd.com/doc/298953769/Swamy-s-Symbols-of-India-Volume-1  

SPEED POST

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SPEED POST Speed Post, the market leader in the domestic express industry, was started by Department of Posts in August 1986 for providing time-bound and express delivery of letters documents and parcels across the nation and around the world. In the past twenty years, it continues to be the market leader in the express industry with monthly volumes exceeding 1.4 crores. Speed Post ushered in a new era when ‘One India, One Rate’ scheme was launched at INR 25 for all destinations across India, from Kashmir to Kanyakumari. Now, Speed Post delivers ‘Value for money’ to every one every where, delivering local Speed Post upto 50 grams at INR 12, inclusive of Service Tax. For corporate customers and to regular users , Speed Post provides ‘home collection’, credit facilities, online tracking, account management and personalised services. Its logo has EMS written with horizontal blue lines and Speed post written in blue. EMS is prefixed and suffixed by a set of bright orange horizontal lines s

INDIA POST

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INDIA POST For more than 150 years, the Department of Post (DoP) has been the backbone of the India’s communication and has played a crucial role in the country’s socio-economic development. It touches the lives of Indian citizens in many ways: delivering mails, accepting deposits under Small Savings Schemes, providing life insurance cover under Postal Life Insurance (PLI) and Rural Postal Life Insurance (RPLI) and providing retail services like bill collection, sale of forms, etc. The DoP also acts as an agent for Government of India in discharging other services for citizens such as Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) wage disbursement and old age pension payments. With 1,55,618 Post Offices, the DoP has the most widely distributed postal network in the world. Its predominantly red coloured logo has three yellow swashes symbolising swift transfer of letters and documents. India Post in Devanagari and English are written on its top and bottom. htt