DETAILS ON RENTED PO BUILDINGS---PIB NEWS

Post Offices in Rented Buildings

The State-wise number of Post Offices being run in the country in the rented buildings, as on 31-03-2010 is given below.

S.N	Name of State	No. of P.Os running in the country in the rented building, State-wise
1	Andhra Pradesh	2015
2	Assam	465
3	Bihar	823
4	Chhattisgarh	296
5	Delhi	215
6	Gujarat	1094
7	Haryana	356
8	Himachal Pradesh	394
9	Jammu & Kashmir	196
10	Jharkhand	329
11	Karnataka	1416
12	Kerala	1214
13	Madhya Pradesh	762
14	Maharashtra	1733
15	Goa	93
16	Arunachal Pradesh	10
17	Tripura	53
18	Meghalaya	35
19	Manipur	42
20	Nagaland	25
21	Mizoram	28
22	Orissa	956
23	Punjab	547
24	Rajasthan	962
25	Tamil Nadu	2319
26	Uttarakhand	296
27	Uttar Pradesh	2531
28	West Bengal	1162
29	Sikkim	203
	Grand Total	20570

Under the activity of “Purchase of Land” in respect of current Plan scheme “Estates Management”, the available fund is being utilized to purchase plots for Post Offices from State Governments/Development Authorities and also in areas where department has difficulty in hiring premises to house Post Offices in future. The financial targets earmarked under this activity during the current Five Year Plan period are Rs. 6.39 Crores to purchase 15 plots.

The details of plots purchased, State-wise are as under:-

S. No	Year	Details
1	2007-08	Nil
2	2008-09	Purchased 2 plots (Dabhoi in Gujarat & Marhaur in Bihar)
3	2009-10	Purchased 1plot (Perambular in Tamil Nadu)
4	2010-11 (upto October, 2010)	Nil.

Details of funds allocated/released under the Plan sub head “Purchase of Land” is as under:

(Rs. in lakhs)

S. No	Year	Budget Estimate/Final Grant	Funds allocated/released	Spent
1	2007-08	0	0	0
2	2008-09	40.00	31.98	31.98
3	2009-10	26.00	25.51	25.51
4	2010-11 (up to October, 2010)	100.00	34.13	26.27 (payment of extension fee)

This information was given in written reply to a question in Lok Sabha by Shri Gurudas Kamat, the Minister of Communications and Information Technology.