IT Modernisation Project -2012
7.1.1
India Post 2012
Objective of India Post 2012
– Modernization and computerization of all Post offices in
the country including Branch Post offices in rural areas,
mail offices and administrative and other offices;
– Development of scalable, integrated and modular software
covering all operations of the Department of Posts such as
Mail Operations, Postal Banking, Insurance, Finance and
HR;
– Establishment of required IT Infrastructure including Data
centre, Wide Area Network (WAN) based networking of
the departmental post offices; and
– Deployment of Rural Information Communication
Technology (Rural ICT) infrastructure in all ~1,30,000 Rural
Post Offices.
7.1.2
IndiaPost 2012 Vision
Empower Rural
Infrastructure
To Be A Increase Market
Technology Share and Revenues
Enabled,
Offer New Products
Self
and Services
Reliant
Market Deliver Improved &
Leader Consistent Customer
Service
Drive high Employee
satisfaction
7.1.3
IndiaPost 2012
• The project will be implemented in 8
contracts(RFP)
1.Network integrator (NI) :
2.Data centre facility (DC/DRC)
3.Financial services system integrator (FSI)
4.Core System integrator (CSI)
5.Rural ICT – hardware (RH)
6.Rural ICT – System integrator (RSI)
7.Mail operations hardware (MH)
8.Change management vendor (CM)
7.1.4
IndiaPost 2012
Vendors of these 8 RFPs are as follows
1.Network integrator (NI) : SIFY
2.Data centre facility (DC/DRC):Reliance
3.Financial services system integrator (FSI):Infosys
4.Core System integrator (CSI):TCS
5.Rural ICT – hardware (RH):RICHO
6.Rural ICT – System integrator (RSI):Infosys
7.Mail operations hardware (MH)
8.Change management vendor (CM):TCS
7.1.5
1.Network integrator (NI)
– This will provide dedicated network connectivity
to all Departmental Post Offices. M/s SIFY is the
vendor
• MOU with SIFY contains these items
• Providing NSP1 and NSP2 Connectivity to all
departmental post offices.
• NSP1- Through BSNL Line only
• NSP2- Through Wireless Connectivity
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• In NI Offices are classified in these categories
• A Class-Offices having more than 50 Systems
• B Class-Offices having more than 10 Systems
• C Class-Offices having more than 2 Systems
• D Class-Offices having 2 Systems
• E Class-Offices having 1 System
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• As per NI Classification A, B, C offices having
MPLS Connectivity as NSP1 and feasible RF as
NSP2
• D and E Class offices having VPN Over Broad
Band connection as NSP1 and Dongle as NSP
• M/s SIFY maitaining its Central NOC at
Chennai
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2.Data centre (DC) facility
• This will setup data centre for hosting
applications; M/s Reliance is selected as
vendor
• Data Center is located in Dhirubhai Ambani
City New Mumbai
• Data Recovery Center is located in Campus of
PTC Mysore
7.1.9
3.Financial System Integrator(FSI)
Provides core banking solutions (CBS) for Postal
Savings Bank and PLI/RPLI services; M/s Infosys is
the vendor
Finacle – For Savings Bank Transactions
McCamish- For Postal Life Insurance Transactions.
ECMS for Both Finacle and McCamish done by IBM
Datacap Application which is prepared by IBM and
Purchased by Infosys.
7.1.10
Project details
4.Core System Integrtor (CSI)
– Provides solutions for Finance and accounts,
Human Resources and Payroll; Also provides
different customer interface channels; Also
performs reporting and analysis. M/s TCS is the
vendor.
– TCS Prepared POS and POS BO modules in Java
Flat form and purchased and customised SAP from
German Based company .
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• POS module is Offline. Working with Data
Synchronizing concept and SAP is online web
application.
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• Modules of CSI in Operative Offices
• POS- Meghdoot Point of Sale
• IPVS-Despatch, Despatch part of Speednet
• DPMS- Postman, eMO, Speednet
• F and A in SAP- Treasury and Subaccount
• SD
• HR
• Also other applications like ESS, Franking etc are
introduced
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• Rural Information & communication
Technology – Rural Hardware (RICT-RH)
• Provides multifunctional hand held devices in
the rural Post offices specially BOs. Vendor is
M/s Richo
• Further RICHO company is tied up with
Visiontek and supplied POS G11 machines to
Branch offices which are well known as MCD(
Main Computing Device ) in our department.
7.1.14
Project details
• Rural Information & communication
Technology System integrator (RICT - SI)
– Provides software solutions for all Postal facilities
and financial services in rural areas including
MGNREGS and eMO; M/s Infosys is the vendor
– Presently With TCS Softwares integrated with CSI
Branch offices are working with Apps called
Demobooking, Dell Aps etc
7.1.15
Project details
• Mail offices hardware (MOH)
– This will provide hardware to mail offices
– This RFP includes providing Postman Hand Held
Device and Automated Sorting Machines to Large
Mail Offices.
7.1.16
Project details
• Change management (CM)
– This will manage training, re skilling and capacity
building among employees to facilitate process
changes; M/s TCS is the vendor
– Department Nominated Divisional Head as
Change leader
– Change Agents are conducting workshop and
transmitting the information related to
development up to End Users
7.1.17
Indiapost 2012 - Benefits
▪ Countrywide financial inclusion particularly in rural areas
▪ Effective delivery of MGNREGS
Benefits to ▪ Effective, timely and transparent delivery of social security
Citizens ▪ Faster and more reliable postal services
▪ Faster and Transparent financial services
▪ Multiple channels of access for customer / delivery by Post
▪ Last Mile IT network connecting more than 1,55,000 post offices
Benefits to ▪ Improved delivery of Govt. schemes in Rural Areas
Government ▪ Improved quality of services
▪ Reduction in operations cost
Benefits to ▪ New products and services based on IT enablement
DoP ▪ Faster and Better decision making based on on-line data
availability
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