Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Monday asked India Post to cash in on the burgeoning e-commerce industry and approach new challenges with a positive mind to achieve targets in this sector."India Posts is best equipped to lead government efforts to accelerate pace of economic growth in rural India. It has to be the lead-partner in the private sector's keenness to reach rural India," he said at the inaugural ceremony of India Post's e-commerce centre here."To achieve this target, the workforce of the department has to change and approach new challenges with a positive mind," he added.Considering the rapid growth of e-commerce business in the country in the recent past, the department of posts, through Delhi Postal Circle, has taken up a project to establish the e-commerce centre at Safdarjang area of south Delhi.
"This processing centre will handle exclusively all the e-commerce business with the state of the art technology driven facility for quick and smooth operation starting from booking till dispatch from the centre," an official statement said."The centre is equipped with modern technology and newly-introduced conveyor belt where parcels get sorted with the help of conveyor belt. As a result, the e-commerce centre is now capable of handling 30,000 parcels/articles per day," it claimed.The parcels are collected from the e-commerce customers, processed and dispatched within 24 hours to respective destination through quickest available flight or train.Leading e-commerce companies like Amazon, Paytm, Yepme, and Snapdeal are already availing the benefits of this newly established e-commerce centre.