NEW DELHI: Union Minister of State for Communications and Rural Development, Dr. Pemmasani Chandra Sekhar, chaired a meeting to address revenue leakages in the Department of Posts (DoP). He called for adopting a multi-pronged, technology-backed, robust and incentive-driven framework to curb revenue leakages across the postal network.

He suggested conducting focused field audits of high-volume Post Offices handling over 10,000, 5,000 and 1,000 transactions per day and ordered integration of weighing machines with postal IT systems to eliminate manual errors and under-invoicing.

To strengthen security, the Union Minister of State directed the rollout of dynamic barcoding along with prepaid booking alerts to monitor irregular transactions and prevent mid-level infusion of articles and parcels into the delivery chain.

The focus is on strengthening operational controls, modernising digital security systems and building a motivated workforce to ensure that every rupee is accounted for, the Union Minister of State said.

The Union MoS also reviewed the Postal Savings Bank’s digital and financial security framework and called for stronger safeguards through biometric and OTP-based authentication for officials.

He directed faster Aadhaar and mobile seeding of accounts and wider adoption of digital passbooks to improve transparency, minimise manual errors and prevent fraud.