Thursday, December 9, 2010

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.

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