"The utilisation of the rural postal network by the State government should be further explored and expanded," an official release quoted Rao as saying.
He was reviewing the aspect of coordination with the Postal Department for financial inclusion programme of the state government at the Secretariat here.
The Postal Department is already involved in the distribution of wages of NREGS and pensions in 383 mandals out of a total of 661 in the state.
He said the State Rural Development Department would be asked to give a feed back on the ongoing programmes and the feasibility of utilising the entire postal network in other remaining mandals for a variety of other services and deliveries.
According to the official, the number of other government schemes that could be brought under the postal network were disbursements of the 'Ma Inti Mahalakshmi' scheme, salaries to anganwadi workers, Janani Suraksha scheme of Health department, collection of electricity, water and other bills, municipal taxes, sales tax, etc, payment of scholarships, allowances to the disabled in areas in which their network exists.