"All the Departmental Post Offices (DPO) and Branch Post Offices (BPO) in the country would be provided with network connectivity by 2012-13 under the India Post Technology Project 2012," Minister for Communications and Information Technology Kapil Sibal informed the Lok Sabha today.
Sibal said that 22,360 DPOs in the country have been provided computers, while 1308 DPOs have been provided with wide area network (WAN) connections and 10,530 DPOs have been provided with broadband facilities. The India Post Technology Project 2012 aims to upgrade the technological infrastructure across post offices in India.
Published 10 August 2011, 09:20 IST