Times
of India: Patiala: Monday, 01 December 2014.
Local postal
department has not been selling the widely used postal orders of Rs 10
denomination at the Patiala head post office on the plea that these are out of
stock for the past around two months. Officials said the postal item that had
become popular after introduction of Right to Information Act in 2005 was out
of stock at head post office since September 6 as fresh stock had not come in.
The Patiala
postal authorities have admitted the scarcity in a written reply to an RTI
filed by Padamjit Singh, who is the chief patron of All India Power Engineers'
Association.
In its reply,
the postal department has admitted that the postal orders of Rs 10 denomination
were not supplied to the Patiala office despite requests for the same had been
submitted to the state office on September 15, 22, October 10 and November 13.
The postal
orders, stamps and other stationery items for various posts offices of the
state is supplied by the Circle Stamps Depot, Ludhiana. An officer posted at
the depot said on the condition of anonymity that there was scarcity of postal
orders but the issue had been resolved. "We have arranged 1 lakh postal
orders of Rs 10 denomination from November 17 and these have been supplied to
various head post offices of Punjab. As of now there is no shortage in
state," the official added.
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