CHENNAI: The postal department is planning to
come up with insurance policies pertaining to girl child and women, according
to Ms Anjali Devasher, Member Postal Services Board (Postal Life Insurance) and
Chairperson of Investment Board.
Ms Devasher told reporters after giving away
National awards for outstanding performance in postal life insurance and rural
postal life insurance that the new policies are at the conceptual stage and
refused to give any time-frame on when it will be introduced.
Talking about the IT project of India Post, Ms
Devasher said that it will be rolled out once it is implemented in all the
seven pilot circles.
She said that postal life insurance was
started as an in-house life insurance scheme for the postal employees in 1884
and is now available to all employees of the Central and state governments
including the defence and paramilitary forces, employees of PSUs, public sector
commercial banks, autonomous bodies and universities and government aided
educational institutions.
She said the scheme was extended to all persons residing in rural India in 1995 and is called Rural Postal Life Insurance Scheme.
She said the scheme was extended to all persons residing in rural India in 1995 and is called Rural Postal Life Insurance Scheme.
She also said that the opening of foreign
direct investment in the insurance sector will not affect the postal
department. “We have a fixed clientele,” she said.
Shri V Pati, Chief General Manager of Postal
Life Insurance said that the number of policies in postal life insurance and
rural postal life insurance is almost Rs 2.86 crore. The corpus size is Rs
55,000 crore and the total sum assured for all policies is Rs 2,01,373 crore.
Source : http://www.newindianexpress.com/
