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India Post Payments Bank launch by PM Modi on Aug 21 to be a grand affair

The IPPB, which has already been delayed by several months, is currently running pilot services in Raipur and Ranchi

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Kiran Rathee New Delhi
The launch of the much-delayed India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) promises to be a grand affair. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will do the honours in Delhi’s Talkatora stadium along with Communications Minister Manoj Sinha on August 21. Simultaneous launches are also being planned across all the 650 districts of the country and a schedule for the same is being drawn up.

The importance of the launch can be gauged from how ministers have been asked to inform the Prime Minister’s Office and take prior permission before leaving the country on August 21. In case a minister wishes to leave the