Relavence of indian post offices?

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Relavence of indian post offices?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: India - a country of 1 billion peoples with more than 3/5th peoples living in rural areas. Even though India is seeing a revolutionary change in the field of telecommunication in recent years, Indian Post Offices plays a vital role in joining rural Indians with rest of the country.

India possesses the largest postal network in the world with As on 31 March 2005 the country has 1,55,516 post offices, of which, 89 per cent are in the rural sector. Post offices in India play a vital role in the rural areas. They connect these rural areas with the rest of the country and also provide banking facilities in the absence of banks in the rural areas. On an average in India, a post office serves an area of 21.10 sq km, and a population of 6609.

Indian Post also offers financial services, Life Insurance, and International mail services, making it one of the main organs of Indian rural life line, since India is a country of villages.