Postal dept package to handle hiring applications

Moving beyond selling application forms, the Department of Posts (DoP) has started offering a complete package to agencies and companies for their recruitment process.

In a first of its kind, the postal department will sell, collect and send application forms for recruitment of people in the central paramilitary forces, including the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and Border Security Force (BSF), a senior DoP official told Business Standard.

The service has been started across 1,000 locations in all major cities. DoP is expected to earn about Rs 10 crore annually as revenue from this. It started selling about 3.1 million application forms over a month earlier, the official added.

It is to extend this ‘total solution offering’ to other companies.

The post offices across 1,000 locations in all major cities have been mandated for this new task. After obtaining application forms from these designated post offices, the interested candidates would be able to give these in there and these would then be sent to the respective locations. This would open a new stream of revenue for the postal department, the official added.