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The government on Wednesday cleared a proposal to set up India Post payments bank with a corpus of Rs 800 crore and has plans to have 650 branches operational by September 2017, Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said.
"The Cabinet has cleared the proposal of postal payments bank. We have 1.54 lakh post offices of which 1.39 lakh are rural post offices. 650 branches of postal payments bank will be established in the country which will be linked to rural post offices," Prasad said.
 
<blockquote data-lang="en">650 payment bank branches will be established at District HQ to connect 1.54 lakh post offices. This will be completed by Sept 2017.
— Ravi Shankar Prasad (@rsprasad) <a href="https://twitter.com/rsprasad/status/737943382022967298">June 1, 2016</a></blockquote>
 
The Minister said the payments bank, which will be run by Chief Executive Officer, will be professionally managed and there will be a representation from various other government departments including the Department of Posts, Department of Expenditure, Department of Economic Services, etc.
"Total architecture of postal payments bank is of Rs 800 crore which will have Rs 400 crore equity and Rs 400 crore grant. By September 2017, all 650 branches of postal payments bank will become operational. This we had planned for three years but now we will be doing it in a year," Prasad said.
He said that all 'grameen dak sevaks' in rural post offices will be given handheld devices by March 2017.
"We are reinforcing it further. I have had a discussion with my officers to give iPad and smartphones to postmen in urban post offices," Prasad said.
At present, core banking network of post offices is more than that of State Bank of India (SBI). SBI has 1,666 core banking branches at present while 22,137 post offices now have core banking facility.
 
<blockquote data-lang="en">India Post <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PaymentBank?src=hash">#PaymentBank</a> will set up 5000 ATMs across the country. It will be the largest banking network in the world.
— Ravi Shankar Prasad (@rsprasad) <a href="https://twitter.com/rsprasad/status/737943774249111552">June 1, 2016</a></blockquote>
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The government on Wednesday cleared a proposal to set up India Post payments bank with a corpus of Rs 800 crore and has plans to have 650 branches operational by September 2017, Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said."The Cabinet has cleared the proposal of postal payments bank. We have 1.54 lakh post offices of which 1.39 lakh are rural post offices. 650 branches of postal payments bank will be established in the country which will be linked to rural post offices," Prasad said. 650 payment bank branches will be established at District HQ to connect 1.54 lakh post offices. This will be completed by Sept 2017.— Ravi Shankar Prasad (@rsprasad) June 1, 2016 The Minister said the payments bank, which will be run by Chief Executive Officer, will be professionally managed and there will be a representation from various other government departments including the Department of Posts, Department of Expenditure, Department of Economic Services, etc."Total architecture of postal payments bank is of Rs 800 crore which will have Rs 400 crore equity and Rs 400 crore grant. By September 2017, all 650 branches of postal payments bank will become operational. This we had planned for three years but now we will be doing it in a year," Prasad said.He said that all 'grameen dak sevaks' in rural post offices will be given handheld devices by March 2017."We are reinforcing it further. I have had a discussion with my officers to give iPad and smartphones to postmen in urban post offices," Prasad said.At present, core banking network of post offices is more than that of State Bank of India (SBI). SBI has 1,666 core banking branches at present while 22,137 post offices now have core banking facility. India Post #PaymentBank will set up 5000 ATMs across the country. It will be the largest banking network in the world.— Ravi Shankar Prasad (@rsprasad) June 1, 2016 

The Minister said the payments bank, which will be run by Chief Executive Officer, will be professionally managed and there will be a representation from various other government departments including the Department of Posts, Department of Expenditure, Department of Economic Services, etc.

650 branches of postal payments bank to be operational by September 2017: Prasad

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The government on Wednesday cleared a proposal to set up India Post payments bank with a corpus of Rs 800 crore and has plans to have 650 branches operational by September 2017, Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said. The Cabinet has cleared the proposal of postal payments bank. We have 1.54 lakh post offices of which 1.39 lakh are rural post offices. 650 branches of postal payments bank will be established in the country which will be linked to rural post offices, Prasad said.   650 payment bank branches will be established at District HQ to connect 1.54 lakh post offices. This will be completed by Sept 2017. — Ravi Shankar Prasad (@rsprasad) June 1, 2016   The Minister said the payments bank, which will be run by Chief Executive Officer, will be professionally managed and there will be a representation from various other government departments including the Department of Posts, Department of Expenditure, Department of Economic Services, etc. Total architecture of postal payments bank is of Rs 800 crore which will have Rs 400 crore equity and Rs 400 crore grant. By September 2017, all 650 branches of postal payments bank will become operational. This we had planned for three years but now we will be doing it in a year, Prasad said. He said that all grameen dak sevaks in rural post offices will be given handheld devices by March 2017. We are reinforcing it further. I have had a discussion with my officers to give iPad and smartphones to postmen in urban post offices, Prasad said. At present, core banking network of post offices is more than that of State Bank of India (SBI). SBI has 1,666 core banking branches at present while 22,137 post offices now have core banking facility.   India Post #PaymentBank will set up 5000 ATMs across the country. It will be the largest banking network in the world. — Ravi Shankar Prasad (@rsprasad) June 1, 2016  