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| India Post launches Five Star Villages Scheme to ensure 100% rural coverage of postal schemes: Quick Highlights |
India Post launches Five Star Villages Scheme to ensure 100% rural coverage of postal schemes: Quick Highlights
India Post launches Five Star Villages Scheme to ensure 100% rural coverage of postal schemes: The Department of Posts has launched a scheme called Five Star Villages, to ensure universal coverage of flagship postal schemes in rural areas of the country.
Quick Highlights:
The scheme seeks to bridge the gaps in public awareness and reach of postal products and services, especially in interior villages. All postal products and services will be made available and marketed and publicized at village level, under the Five Star Villages scheme.
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If a village attains universal coverage for four schemes from the above list, then that village gets four star status; if a village completes three schemes, then that village get three-star status and so on.
The Scheme launched by:
The scheme launched by the Union Minister of State for Communications, Shri Sanjay Dhotre.
The entire state of Maharashtra will be covered under the scheme. To begin with, two rural districts / areas for each region have been identified: Akola and Washim in Nagpur Region; Parbhani and Hingoli in Aurangabad Region; Solapur and Pandharpur in Pune Region; Kolhapur and Sangli in Goa Region; and Malegaon and Palghar in Navi Mumbai Region. A total of 50 villages in each district will be covered during the current financial year 2020-2021. Regional offices will identify the villages to be covered.
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