Modernisation of Postal Department Of India In Pipeline

The postal department of India is performing many crucial functions. With the passage of time, the postal department of India also needs technological upgradation and modernisation initiatives. This is not a difficult task to achieve as the department of post is attached with the union ministry of communication and information technology (MCIT).

Realising the potential of a modern postal department, the union minister of MCIT Mr. Kapil Sibal has started the modernisation and upgradation process of postal department of India. We at Perry4Law and Perry4Law Techno Legal Base (PTLB) believe that there are many aspects of e-commerce, e-governance and banking that can be combined with the postal department of India.

In fact, the postal department of India has already applied to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for a banking licence. Mr. Kapil Sibal had written to the Finance Minister, Mr. Pranab Mukherjee, to expedite the granting of the banking licence.

Further, a national postal policy targeting expansion and modernisation of the postal network would be announced during this year. Although the India government does not intend to issue licences to courier service companies yet it would make it mandatory for them to register.

The national postal policy of India aims at modernising postal services in India. The policy is expected to make the department of post adopt a more financially viable revenue model. It would also provide affordable services at all points in the country as part of its Universal Service Obligations of India.

There is a good scope of public private partnership (PPP) in this modernisation drive. For instance, various value added services can be provided through the PPP model. Similarly, PPP can also help the department of post in expanding its products and services range beyond the current core functions.

India currently has 1.55 lakh post offices, 95 per cent of which are situated in rural areas. With the use of information technology, urban areas can be provided better postal services. This is a good step in right direction and Perry4Law and PTLB welcomes the same.

Virtual Campuses Can Eliminate Corruption In Higher Education Of India

All of you must remember Jaspal Bhatti’s flop show and the episode pertaining to PhD. The episode explained how PhD researchers in India are exploited by their supervisors in cash and kind. That was a classical comedy that portrayed the corrupt higher educational system of India.

Years have passed but the bitter truth still prevails in India. Although HRD minister Kapil Sibal is doing great to improve and strengthen the dying educational system of India yet PhDs in India are still facing the menace of corruption.

Recently, e-mails were also sent to both Kapil Sibal and Salman Khurshid to bring to their notice the deteriorating conditions of higher legal education in India. The truth is that higher legal education in India needs urgent reforms.

Higher education in India is suffering from many deficiencies and irregularities. These include lack of practical training, academic nature of education, absence of skills development, corruption, lack of research capabilities, etc.

Universities and colleges are engaging in all sorts of undesirable behaviours and practices and this is affecting the higher education and research oriented courses like PhDs. Indian government is also not very much enthusiastic in curing these deficiencies and eliminating the irregularities.

The lack of transparency and prevalent corruption is eating up the higher education system of India and it can be cured if we allow foreign educational institutions to open their centers in India. This way not only the monopoly of Indian colleges and institutions can be eliminated but better and qualitative education can be made available to Indian students.

Further, this would also force the Indian educational institutions and colleges to focus and stress upon quality rather than upon corrupt practices and exploitation. We need more virtual campuses as well so that Indian students can have qualitative education through e-learning and distance learning method.

At Perry4Law Techno Legal Base (PTLB) we are trying to bridge this qualitative gap in a corruption free environment through its Online Skills Development and Training platform. PTLB is managing the exclusive techno legal e-learning and virtual legal education campus of India and world wide. It also provides many other qualitative and highly specialised courses through its virtual campus that would remain a dream through traditional Indian educational institutions. We hope this initiative of ours would be beneficial for all the stakeholders.