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New airport to have its own PIN

Swathi Shivanand

Mail will be sent directly to the airport from sorting units

— Photo: G.R.N. Somashekar

Breather on cards: The decision to assign dedicated PIN codes will reduce the burden on postal staff.

BANGALORE: The date of the opening of the Bangalore International Airport may yet be undecided, but one thing is certain: Mail sent to the distant airport will reach without any delay.

The airport has been assigned a unique Postal Index Number (PIN) code — 560 300 — by the Karnataka Postal Circle of India Post. “This is part of our initiative to enhance our services. We provide unique PIN codes to institutions and offices that receive more than 200 posts a day,” Principal Chief Postmaster-General Meera Datta told The Hindu here on Wednesday.

When an office is assigned a dedicated PIN code, mail addressed to it will go to its premises directly from the Postal Department’s sorting units. At present, mail received by the Postal Department by air, road or rail are first sent to the sorting units in the city and then to the area post offices, from where they are sent to the specific destinations.

With the new airport being assigned a unique PIN code, the mail will now be sent directly to the airport from the sorting units, instead of to the Yelahanka Post Office. Last year, India Post launched a move to assign dedicated PIN codes to offices across the country.

The Karnataka Postal Circle has identified 57 such offices in the city, both government and private. Some of the offices that have received new PIN codes are the offices of the Chief Secretary (new PIN code: 560 214), the Chief Minister (560 213), the Finance Minister (560 237) and the Home Minister (560 238), and offices of government departments such as Health and Family Welfare (560 219), Rural Development (560 220) and Women and Child Development (560 224). Private companies such as Accenture, ICICI, Wipro, Sasken and Tata Consultancy have also received their own PIN codes. However, the areas around these offices will still have the old PIN codes. Ms. Datta said that the responsibility of circulating the new PIN codes lay with the offices themselves.

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