Kolkata: The West Bengal circle of India Post have inaugurated a Calcutta-Delhi direct route for the delivery of postal mail.
Aimed at bolstering the road transport network (RTN), this service was launched by Ashok Kumar, Chief Postmaster General at Nabadiganta sub-post office in Sector V, Salt Lake.
The first can carry a full capacity of five tonnes of mail, including parcels.
The vehicle will ply daily from Calcutta to Delhi, carrying parcels for Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Delhi.
This will be a point-to-point delivery with security surveillance. GPS is installed on the vehicle, which will allow us to track the mail movement.
The postal department has 34 national routes, which in turn connect to 110 state-level routes through a hub-and-spoke model. This extends the reach to more than 100 Tier 2 and Tier 3 destinations.
The West Bengal circle of Indian Post is currently operating on three national RTN routes.
- Kolkata- Guwahati via Siliguri and vice versa
- Kolkata Patna via Dhanbad and Gaya and vice versa
- Kolkata- Nagpur via Bhubaneswar and Raipur and vice versa
Postal mails and parcels for North India are currently being sent via the Calcutta-Patna RTN up to Patna. From there it goes via Patna-Delhi via Allahabad, Lucknow and Bareilly and vice versa to Delhi.
Another RTN for Chennai to Kolkata is soon in the pipeline.
