ORGANIZATION OF DEPARTMENT

Post office guide is divided into following Four parts

Part- I	Rules and regulation relating to inland post
Part- II	Rules and regulations relating to foreign post
Part- III	List of post offices
Part- IV	Saving bank and post office saving schemes

Sections in post office guide part 1

SECTION I – General

SECTION II – Letter and Parcel Post

SECTION – III – Official Postal Articles

SECTION IV – Prohibited Articles

SECTION V – Money Orders

SECTION VI - Philately

SECTION VII - Postal Life Insurance

ORGANIZATION OF DEPARTMENT

Beginning: - By - Lord Dalhousie
DOP came into its present form: -- 1st October 1854.

Clause - 01 Control

DOP {Department of Post} comes under the ministry of communication.

In charge :-- communication Ministe r

DOP is under the administrative control of Director General Post New Delhi.

The director general handles all matters relating to Administration and operations.

Department of post is headed by secretary of department of post.
Headquarter of India post is at Dak Bhawan New Delhi.
Directorate of PLI is at New Delhi & Director of PLI is at Kolkata.
For the purpose of Administration, the entire country has been divided into 23 postal circles.
Apart from the 23 postal circles, there is a separate Wing called the Army Postal Service to take care of the Postal needs of the armed forces.

The APS is designated as another circle called the Base circle.
Total APO (Army Post Offices) :-- 2 (Two)
1. 1. 56 APO – New Delhi also called as 1CBPO
Pin Code :-- 900056
1. 1. 99 APO – Kolkata also called as 2 CBPO
Pin Code :-- 900099
Army Postal Service is headed by an additional director general, Army Postal Service in the rank of major general.

1. 1. The officer cadre of the Army Postal service comprises Officers on deputation from the Civil post.
  2. 75% of other ranks of Army postal service are also Drawn from the Department of Post and the remaining 25% of personnel are recruited by the Army.
1. 1. Headquarter: -New Delhi
  2. The two Command-based POs (CBPOs) are at Delhi and Kolkata and the Army Postal Service Training Centre is at Kamptee, Nagpur are commanded by Commandants in the rank of Colonel.

The Postal Services Board (PSB) is the apex management body of the Department.

It comprises the Chairperson and six Members.
The Director General of Postal Services, Additional Director General (Coordination), and Additional Secretary & Financial Advisor are the permanent invitees to the Board meetings.

Apex management body of DOP: - Postal service board (PSB)

Secretary as chairperson
DG Director General
ADG additional director general
Six members (PPPOTB)

Personnel

Planning

PLI (Postal Life Insurance)

Operations

Technology

Banking and equity

Permanent Invitee to the board :-- Two
Necessary functional support for board at Headquarter is provided by:--

Postal service board is assisted by the senior staff officer of the directorate as ---- Secretary to the board
Postal service board comprises officers on deputation from -- Civil post

Designation	Handling Areas	Name
Planning & HRD	Human Resource Development, Philately & Estates Management and Planning
Personnel	Personnel Management
PLI	PLI & Investment of PLI Funds
Banking & DBT	Banking and Direct Benefit Transfer
Operations	Postal Operations
Technology	Technology induction and implementation

The Additional Secretary and Financial Advisor (AS&FA) heads the Integrated Finance Wing (IFW) of the Department.
Secretary, Postal Services Board assists the Board in its functioning.
In addition, Chief General Managers of Business Development Directorate, Parcel Directorate and Postal Life Insurance Directorate and Deputy Directors General, Directors and Assistant Directors General at the Headquarters provide necessary support to the Board.

The office of controller of foreign mails is located in Mumbai.

Structure of D.O.P.

	Head
Circle	CPMG	Chief Postmaster General
Regions	PMG	Postmaster General
Divisions	SSP/SP	Superintendent of Post / Senior Superintendent of post
Sub divisions	IP/ASP	Inspector post / Assistant Superintendent of post

(Circles are divided into Regions - Regions are divided into Divisions and further Divisions are Divided into sub-Divisions)

Types of Division in Region :--

Division	Head
Postal Division	SP/SSP
RMS Division	SRM/SSRM

Depot In DOP :--

At present postal store depot and circle stamp depot are merged and the depots are headed by a single PS group B officer ie superintendent

Circle in DOP

Total Circle -- 23

North East Postal circle --- Headquarter Shillong

States in North East circle --- 6

1	Manipur	2	Meghalaya	3	Mizoram	MMM
4	Arunachal Pradesh	3	Tripura	6	Nagaland	ATN

States & UT in West Bengal circle :--- 03

West Bengal

Andaman Nicobar

Sikkim

WAS

States in Maharashtra circle :-- 02

Maharashtra

Goa

States & UT in Gujarat circle :--- 03

Gujrat

Dadra Nagar Haveli

Daman & Diu

DDG

States & UT in Kerala circle :--

Kerala

Lakshadweep

Mahe

KLM

Mahe is a district in the Puducherry union territory of India but it comes under the Kerala postal circle

States & UT in Punjab circle:--

Punjab

Chandigarh

States & UT in Tamil Nādu circle

Tamil Nadu

Pondicherry

States in Andhra Pradesh circle:--

Andhra Pradesh

Yanam

(Note :: Yanam is part of Pondicherry Tamil Nadu)

States & UT in Jammu & Kashmir circle:--

Jammu & Kashmir

Ladakh

All Circles & headquarters in DOP

N.	Circle	Headquarter
1	Andhra Pr. (Yanam)	Vijayawada
2	Assam	Guwahati
3	Bihar	Patna
4	Chhattisgarh	Raipur
5	Delhi	New Delhi
6	Gujarat	Ahmedabad
7	Haryana	Ambala Cantt
8	Himachal	Shimla
9	Jammu & Kashmir	Srinagar
10	Jharkhand	Ranchi
11	Karnataka	Bangalore
12	Kerala	Thiruvananthapuram
13	Madhya Pr.	Bhopal
14	Maharashtra	Mumbai
15	North Eastern	Shillong
16	Odisha	Bhubaneshwar
17	Punjab	Chandigarh
18	Rajasthan	Jaipur
19	Tamil Nadu	Chennai
20	Telangana	Hyderabad city
21	Uttar Pradesh	Lucknow
22	Uttarakhand	Dehradun
23	West Bengal	Kolkata

Name	Headquarter Location	Deals with
Parcel Directorate	Malcha Marg, New Delhi	All Parcel activities, eCommerce Booing & Nodal Delivery Centers, International Parcels, EMS Merchandise in domestic
PLI Directorate	Chanakyapuri, New Delhi O/o The PLI Director - Kolkata	All matters related to PLI & RPLI, Insurance Investment Board
BD Directorate	Dak Bhavan, New Delhi	Business Products- Retail, Business, Direct, Media, Greetings Post etc., New Business Initiatives (POPSK, Aadhaar, eCommerce Portal etc.

APS Directorate

Sena Dak Bhavan, New Delhi

Postal needs to our armed force (Military, Para Military, Navy, Air Force) in India and Outside India where they serve

1 СВРО - 56 APO - Delhi-900056

2 СВРО - 99 APO - Kolakta-900099

Heads of Institutions
Directorate	Secretary of Posts & Director General
Circle Office	Chief Postmaster General
Postal Account Office	Director
Regional Office	Postmaster General
General Post Office	Director GPO or Chief PM or Senior PM
Gazetted HO	Senior PM or Chief PM
APS	ADG
PTCS & RAΚΝΡΑ	Director
CEPT, Mysore	General Manager & Director
BD, PLI & Parcel Directorate	Chief General Manager
RLO	Manager
Mail Motor Service	Senior Manager or Manager
PSD	Superintendent of PSD
Postal Division	SPOS/SSPOS
RMS Division	SRM/SSRM

Total Postal training center
1	Uttar Pradesh	Saharanpur
2	Gujarat	Vadodara
3	Karnataka	Mysore
4	Tamil Nādu	Madurai
5	Bihar	Darbhanga
6	Assam	Guwahati

Important Points

Centre for Excellence in Postal Technology (CEPT) located in Mysore is headed by General Manager.
Rafi Ahmed Kidwai National Postal Academy (RAKNPA) located in Ghaziabad, U.P is headed by Director.

It imparts training for higher managerial cadres, Group A officers of Indian Postal Service and Group B Officers of Department of Posts & Managers of Foreign Postal Administrations.

Regional Training Center (RTC)

There are 4 RTCs at Bhubaneswar, Delhi, Nashik and Hubballi which have been set up for providing training to the Postal operative Staff.
The origin of modern Postal network can be traced back to the year 1727, when the first Post Office was set up in Kolkata.
Subsequently, General Post Offices (GPO) were set up in the then three Presidency towns of Kolkata in 1774, Chennai in 1786 and Mumbai in 1793.
The Indian Post Office Act of 1837 was enacted to bring out uniformity in Postal operations.
This Act was followed by a more comprehensive Indian Post Office Act of 1854 which laid the foundation of modern-day Postal system in the country. In the same year, Railway Mail Service was introduced and the Sea Mail Service started from India to Great Britain and China.
The Indian Post Office Act of 1898 further strengthened the Postal system in the country. On 24th December 2023, the Post Office Act, 2023 has been notified after receiving the assent of the President of India.
In 1852, the first ever adhesive postage stamp in Asia was issued in Sindh (Scinde) province. These stamps subsequently became famous as the Scinde Dawks. These stamps were in circulation upto June 1866
The first Postage stamp valid across the country was issued on 1st October, 1854 which provided an affordable and uniform rate of Postage based on weight.
On 18^th February, 1911, the world's first airmail flight took off from Allahabad to Naini. It traversed a distance of 18 kilometers (approx.) across the river Ganges.

ORGANIZATION OF DEPARTMENT