---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: anil chamadia <[email protected]> Date: 25 May 2011 12:12 Subject: [chhattisgarh-net] Oppose decision of withdrawing old postal service UPC To: [email protected] Dear friends, I hope you will be aware of this decision that the Communication and Information ministry, Govt. of India, has withdrawn service of UPC (Under Posting Certificate) that was used mostly by poor sections of society. Now a days, the activists in the sphere of RTI were also using this old postal service extensively. Under this service, the consumers got a proof from the post office against the posting of their letters or documents at the same post office after paying just Rs 3. The consumer just pasted a postal stamp of worth Rs 3 (Three) on his own written address slip or paper and the post office where the consumer posted their documents canceled the stamp pasted on the address slip. Now this slip worked as a proof against the posting of the documents on the certain address. The address slip was valid up to three addresses. In other words, the big advantage for the consumers was that they could have received a proof certificate simultaneously for three documents just paying the same amount of 3 Rs. After withdrawal of this service I filed an RTI before Communication department in New Delhi asking for simple information that why the concerned department has discontinued the service of UPC and what were the disadvantages the department facing for continuing this service? But the department did not furnish this information properly. The department answered that the postal department used not to confirm the delivering of particular documents at the particular address after giving the receiving certificate. It is here to clear that the purpose of UPC was to get a proof by the consumer against the posting of the documents at the certain address. In fact it was not for delivery proof. After all, the job of delivery is with the postal department. This step has been taken by the department in an arbitrary manner. As we know that his service was being used by a million of people in a month countrywide. But it is a matter of surprise that no political party or organization has come forward to oppose this move. It seems that postal department do not understand the importance of this service in this country with this fact that this service is mentioned in the 1935 act. It seems that this step was taken to promote the courier services of private company. Presently, any consumer has to pay more than twenty two rupees for registered post. An RTI activist had to pay maximum Rs 8 for using under posting certificate service. We feel that this move is an effort to curtail the rights being exercised by RTI activists . With regard Anil chamadia 09868456745 09503834595 __._,_.___ Reply to sender | Reply to group | Reply via web post | Start a New Topic Messages in this topic (1) Recent Activity: New Members 7 Visit Your Group Visit our website: http://www.cgnet.in Switch to: Text-Only, Daily Digest • Unsubscribe • Terms of Use . __,_._,___ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Free Binayak Sen" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/free-binayaksen?hl=en-GB. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "humanrights movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
