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Sibal suprises with all-women post office on Women's Day

There are 1,003 women employees at operative level in Delhi circle, women in total work force are about 14%

Sounak Mitra New Delhi
 
Finance Minister P Chidambaram may have received the first round of applause by proposing to set up all-women bank in his Budget speech.

But, just a week after Chidambaram’s announcement, his colleague Kapil Sibal, Minister of Communications and IT, has surprised everybody by inaugurating India’s first all-women post office at Shastri Bhawan in New Delhi on Women’s Day.

There is no statement on what actually propelled Sibal to start the all-women Post Office at Shastri Bhawan, adjacent to the Parliament.

“This office is a Project Arrow Office and has three counters. Two counters offer Multi Purpose services like booking of Speed Post, Registration, Sale of IPOs, Booking of Money Orders etc and one counter is for Sale of Stamps. All these counters of this Post Office will now be manned by Women employees only,” according to a statement by Sibal’s ministry.

The Post Office will be open from 9.30 am to 5.30 pm.

According to the ministry, there are 1,003 women employees at the operative level in Delhi circle and their percentage in the total work force is about 14%.

In the administrative cadres the percentage is 22%.

The junior engineer (civil), who is the incharge of maintenance of the Post Office building, the assistant superintendent of Post Offices of the Postal Sub Division as well as senior superintendent of Post Offices of Delhi Central division who are controlling officers of this Post Office are also women, the ministry said in a statement.

Sibal had reportedly said that there would be more all-women post offices in near future for the convenience of the women.

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First Published: Mar 08 2013 | 7:41 PM IST

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