India opens 34 all-women post offices across country

In a bid to promote gender equality and empower women in the country, India on Saturday said it has opened 34 post offices were the staff consisted of all-women employees across major cities. Indian Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Killi Kruparani, noted that the objective for opening of all-women post offices in the country was to lay focus on women's empowerment. "It is an effort to integrate gender equality and women's empowerment for good governance by ensuring that women employees working at various levels in the Department have a real voice in the decision making of the department as well as have a role in the management of post offices in the country," the minister said. The minister said the all-women post offices are the post office where all employees are women and they have been given the responsibility of managing the events of the post offices. "This is also done with a view to promote leadership and managerial qualities in women employees in the country," she said. These post offices are opened in major cities and at present 34 all-women post offices are functioning in the country, Kruparani said, adding, All Women Post Office offer a secured environment to woman customers from all strata of society to transact postal business.