For more than 150 years, the Department of Posts (DoP) has been the backbone of the country’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, 55,015 Post Offices, the DoP has the most widely distributed postal network in the world.