PROBATIONERS OF INDIAN POSTAL SERVICE, INDIAN TELECOM SERVICE AND P&T BUILDING WORKS SERVICE CALL ON THE PRESIDENT
Press Information Bureau
Government of India
President's Secretariat
09-March-2016 18:07 IST
Probationers of Indian Postal Service, Indian Telecom Service and P&T Building Works Service call on the President
A group of Probationers of Indian Postal Service, Indian Telecom
Service and P&T Building Works Service called on the President of
India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee today (March 09, 2016) at Rashtrapati
Bhavan.
Speaking on the occasion, the President said that the part
privatization of Postal and Telecom sector in the era of liberalization
has witnessed drastic changes in technology and exponential growth of
the consumers. If they have to survive in the competitive world, they
have to keep pace with the fast changing Information and Communication
Technology.
The President said that India has undergone a telecom revolution during
the last two decades. The launch of mobile telephony and faster
internet network in India has enabled India tap its vast digital
potential. India is emerging as a fast digital hub. It is the need of
the hour to have best quality telecom and internet services. India now
has about 46 crore internet users and 37 crore mobile users. The numbers
are likely to increase exponentially with enhanced levels of education
and cheaper rate of internet and mobile telephony. He expressed hope
that the Postal Academy and National Telecommunications Institute are
providing requisite technical and non-technical inputs to enable the
probationers to take up the ensuing challenges in the postal, telecom
and building works sector. They have to work with professionalism,
transparency and integrity to meet the aspirations of large number of
people of India.
The probationers of the Indian Postal Service are presently undergoing
professional training at the Rafi Ahmed Kidwai National Academy,
Ghaziabad while probationers of Indian Telecom Service and P&T
Building Work Service are undergoing their induction training at
National Tele-communications Institute for Policy Research, Innovation
& Training, Ghaziabad.
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Shri
Adarsh Mishra - IPS (Postal Services ) S/o our Secretary General Shri
Shivakant Mishra attended introduction ceremony with Hon'ble President
of India in Rastrapati Bhawan dated 9-3-2016. Standing in Middle of
last row bearing Goggle.
lot of congratulation to him and all probationers for bright future .