and higher efficien-cy to attain the new-er heights in provid-ing Citizen Centric IT services to our fellow countrymen.

T hinking well is wise, P lanning well is wiser, D oing well is wisest. At this juncture, I am reminded of this Persian Proverb as it is now the turn of DOING and of course, DOING WELL!

I am sure, with the knowledge, experi-ence and the skill set possessed by our field units, we shall win this part of the race too!

Dear Colleagues, A journey of a thou-sand miles begins with a single step speaks an adage. India Post Infor-mation Technology Project 2012 - a Project encompass-ing entire country - is now reaching its crescendo as the Roll Out is going on at full throttle. More than half of the Postal Divisions have been migrated

to the CSI fold. The pace at which the Roll Out is progress-ing shall see all Postal Circles work-ing on CSI Applica-tion much sooner than later. The time and efforts that have been put by our val-iant soldiers, at all echelons, is com-mendable. Now is the time to revisit our under-standing and thoughts on the Pro-ject as the limelight and focus shifts from building and implementing the Project to opera-tions and mainte-nance. Now, it will be the turn of the field units to work with greater efficacy

India Post IT Modernization Project 2012

Core System Integrator Update

175 Divisions across 11 Circles have been migrated to CSI System by 20/02/2018. These include 159 Postal Divisions and 16 RMS Divi-sions comprising of 349 Head Post Offices, 7614 Sub Post Offices & 40655 Branch Post Offices. 8 Postal Stores Depot, 2 Circle Stores Depot & 1 MMS unit also have been rolled out to CSI System. Fur-ther, 56 Administrative Offices have been rolled out to CSI System.

JANUARY- MARCH 2018 Volume iii, issue 3

VOLUME III, ISSUE 3

CEPT Round Up

Sri Narayana Marthi,

Deputy Manager & look-

ing after Speed Post Op-

erations joined Postal

Training Centre, Mysore

as Instructor on

28/12/2017.

Sri Jagadamba Prasad,

Technical Supervisor

(RICT Project) is relieved

on 15/12/2017 who

joined his parent Allaha-

bad RMS Division.

Ms Ramamani

(27/10/2017) & Ms Vijaya-

valli S R (12/02/2018) -

Office Assistants volun-

tarily retired.

Fraud Management Re-

sponse Unit commences

functioning at Bangalore

GPO Complex on

10/01/2018.

Inside this issue:

Customer Feedback 2

ESearchBill 3

PMA Update 3

Meet THE Techie 4,5

Techknowledgee 5

Tech-Jumble 6

TecHumour 6

GM’S PEN SPEAKS…

e-News Letter from the Centre for Excellence in Postal Technology , Mysore 570010

DARPAN Solution stands deployed at 54,996 BOs across 412 Postal Divisions across the country as on 31/01/2018.

In case of Airtel Non feasible locations, feasible Network (Vodafone/Idea/BSNL) is being planned to be provisioned through Network Aggrega-tor.

2,35,18,793 CBS Transactions amounting to ₹28,19,29,96,627 (2,800 Crores Approximately) is carried out across the country from the com-mencement date of RICT CBS Transactions till 07/02/2018.

Rural System Integrator Update

CUSTOMER FEEDBACK

“To catch the reader's attention, place

an interesting sentence or quote from

the story here.”

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Customer Feedback option is made available to public through India Post Website (www.indiapost.gov.in) and India Post Mobile App (Postinfo). This option is available from 16/02/2018. Any citizen of the country who avails any service from India Post can provide star rated feedback on the quali-ty of service rendered by India Post. The star rated feedback can be provided for any Mail service (Speed Post/Registered Post/Ordinary Post) or Financial services (Money remittance/Banking/ Insurance) or Philately service rendered by particu-lar Post office. The customer can also provide his comments / suggestions, if (s)he so desires. The Feedback reflects the Customer’s viewpoint on a particular service at a par-ticular post office. Therefore, based on the overall percentages thus arrived, both at product level and at office level, suitable inferences can be drawn about the areas to be improved.

The Readers are requested to popularize this feature amongst the customers!

Conceptual-ized to De-light Cus-

tomer

http://www.indiapost.gov.in

IPS servers are dedicated for handling the International articles data exchange between India Post and the postal department of partner countries. Office of exchanges are also working on IPS servers. This enables tracking of international articles. Up gradation to two times the ex-isting RAM capacity of IPS servers is carried out to ensure the seamless flow of electronic data of international business.

E - SEARCHBILL

Updating pick up of articles feature is now available in the App.

Integrated version of App [Integration with CSI application] is Implemented on 10/02/2018 in CSI rolled out locations.

While delivering the articles, customer feedback i.e., star-rating the delivery service has been added.

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A new feature has been imple-mented in the CCC Module with effect from 01/02/2018 which replaces the Traditional Search Bills. This feature ena-bles the user to assign the E-SearchBill to the last scanned office of the article and the E-SearchBill will move from one office to other in CCC Module itself. Thus, reducing the time involved in movement of the Search Bill drastically.

E-SearchBill has been given higher priority in the CCC Module. Thus, any pendency therein will be highlighted in the home page of CCC module itself with a blinking red text.

New option to enter compensation details in case of lost articles has been implemented

as a part of E-SearchBill. The E-SearchBill button will be visible for all type of mail articles (i.e. not for Banking or

other complaints). Around 3000 E-SearchBills have been created from 01/02/2018 to 19/02/2018.

POSTMAN MOBILE APP Update

IPS RESOURCES UPGRADATION

Customs authorities are an important part of the postal lo-gistic chain. The time that mail items spend at customs is a substantial part of postal end-to-end performance. To de-crease end-to-end throughput time and to increase custom-er satisfaction for international mail, it is absolutely neces-sary to automate customs processing for mail as much as possible.

Designated Postal Operators are already quite advanced in using information technology and the linking of their auto-mated international mail management systems by the use of Electronic Data Exchange (EDI). The UPU is facilitating Postal Customs clearing and address Security issues through the introduction of electronic pre-advice and clear-ing - Customs Declaration System.

CEPT is in the process of introduction and implementation of Customs Declaration System for India Post.

CUSTOMS DECLARATION SYSTEM

Having previously handled Postman, eMO, RNet & ParcelNet after having joined CEPT as programmer on 01/05/2008, Sri P S Pavan Kumar currently handles Cash on Delivery, IFS, Project Arrow as Team Lead besides being the Deputy Manager for IT Security and Enterprise Monitoring System compo-nents under the India Post IT Modernization Project 2012. He has been a part of the delegate that visited Bhutan to make a System Study of Bhutan Post Operations during 2011. After being the Team Lead in development, he visited Bhutan once again during the implementation phase of the software in 2012. Having joined the department as Postal assistant on 27/04/1997, Sri P S Pavan Kumar has worked in the capacities of Office assistant, Inspector Posts and Assistant superintendent of Post Offices during his field stint. He has added MBA and MCA to his initial BSc [Electronics] degree and PGDCA after joining

the Department. He added VB, C#, .Net, SQL Server & Business Intelligence after joining the depart-ment to his existing arsenal of BASIC, COBOL, Lotus, Dbase languages. Born at Addanki, Prakasam District of Andhra Pradesh on 01/06/1977, Sri P S Pavan Kumar had his initial schooling at Narsaraopet, Andhra Pradesh. He completed his tenth from Nagarjuna Public School, Ongole, Andhra Pradesh and twelfth from Nagarjuna Junior College, Ongole, Andhra Pra-desh. He obtained his degree from ANR College, Gudivada, Andhra Pradesh.

He prefers to speak in English and Telugu and is able to converse in Kannada and Hindi too. He is adept at playing chess and Shuttle Badminton. Tennis legend Ivan Lendl is his sports icon. He loves listening to Indian Traditional Music. S Janaki and S P Balasubramaniam are his favourite playback singers. Actor and Member of Parliament, Chiranjeevi is his favourite actor.

He married Ms Bhavani, a BSc graduate in computer Science, on 18/05/2005 who is a homemaker. They have a son studying in 6th standard and a daughter studying in 1st standard.

Meet THE Techie

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P S PAVAN KUMAR

Deputy Manager

Sri Narayana Marthi joined CEPT as a programmer in March/2007 and developed DET Module and handled - Speednet Server Modules, MIS Reports and Tracking, Integration of Speed Post with different e-commerce company Modules, Treasury, Sub Accounts, PoS Submit Accounts besides functioning as Deputy Manager handling the Data Centre Facility and Enterprise Monitoring System under the India Post IT Modernization Project 2012. He has, on 28/12/2017, joined the Postal Training Centre, Mysore as an Instructor.

Joining the Department as Postal Assistant on 27/04/1997, Sri Narayana worked at Machilipatnam & Gudivada Head Post Offices. He worked as IP [Technology] at the Hyderabad Regional Office during 2007 and is promoted as Assistant Superintendent of Post Offices in 2011. He obtained his degree from ANR College Gudivada. He has earned Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Applications also in Post Graduate Diploma in Office Management. He has undergone training in SQL Management. He is proficient in C, C#, Asp.net, T-SQL, Java Script.

Born at Gudivada, Andhra Pradesh on 29/06/1976, Sri Narayana Marthi had his initial schooling at Montessori High School, Gudivada. He completed his twelfth from Satavahana College, Vijayawada. He obtained his degree from ANR College, Gudivada, Andhra Pradesh.

He prefers to speak in English and Telugu and is able to converse in Kannada and Hindi too. He likes to play cricket and Shuttle Badminton. Badminton player P Gopichand is his sports icon. He loves Kathak and is interested in flute. Chitra is his favourite playback singer. Smita Patil and Amir Khan are his favourite actors. He loves reading Books.

He married Ms Lakshmi Padmaja on 04/03/2001 who is a Mathematics Graduate possessing B Ed and is a home maker. They have a son studying in 10th standard and a daughter studying in 7th standard.

He feels that working at CEPT in different projects and associating with the major initiatives of Directorate like MNOP, COD, technical integration with customers etc. changed his perspective about service delivery. These transformed him into a person with more positive attitude and helped him in approaching the situations in a methodical way.

Scientists have developed a new type of neural network chip that can dramatically improve the efficiency of teaching machines to think like humans.

The network called a Reservoir Computing System, could predict words before they are said during conversation, and help predict future out-comes based on the present.

Reservoir computing systems, which improve on a typical neural net-work’s capacity and reduce the required training time, have been created in the past with larger optical components.

Researchers from University of Michigan in the U S created their system using memristors, which require less space and can be integrated more

easily into existing silicon-based electronics.

Memristors are a special type of resistive device that can both perform logic and store data.

This contrasts with typical computer systems, where processors perform logic separate from memory modules. [Courtesy: The Hindu, 25/12/2017]

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R es ervo i r c o m pu t i ng

s y s t em c an hel p pr ed i c t

o u t co m es b as ed o n t he

pres ent

Meet THE Techie

TECHKNOWLEDGEE [Systems Make Machines Think Like Humans]

Narayana Marthi

Ex-Deputy Manager

CLUE: Pick from words: first letter of the first word, second letter of the second

word, second last letter of the third word and last letter of the last word - to get the

acronym for one of the assessment methodology.

TECH-JUMBLE

Answers to Crossword of October - December 2017 Issue “To catch the reader's attention, place

an interesting sentence or quote from

the story here.”

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A conversation by a rep-

resentative of a Personnel

Search Company and a

Candidate:

So Mr Abhay, you say that

you are a software engi-

neer. Do you know Mi-

crosoft Office?

‘If you give me the ad-

dress, I will go there,

Sir!!!’

TecHumour

I decided to make my

password “incorrect”

because if I type it wrong,

my computer will remind

me,

“Your password is

“incorrect”!

[ANSWERS TO THE ABOVE –TECH-JUMBLE]

POLICY, SECURITY, PASSWORD, INTEREST

PERT - PROJECT EVALUATION AND REVIEW TECHNIQUE