Postal Department to raise tariffs after sixteen years: Should be rational and logical
Postal Department after bearing heavy subsidy-losses for long with incoming revenue reduced and overheads increased, has at last decided to raise postal-tariffs. It is time that outdated loss-making postal-services like Inland-Letter-Cards, Book-Post and ordinary post-card may be discontinued retaining sponsored meghdoot post-card priced at rupee one ensuring that it may not be misused for commercial or entertainment purposes. Presently chit-fund companies and those wishing to get their names broadcast in programmes of listeners-choice presented by All India Radio misuse heavily subsidised post-cards. Raising cost of sponsored meghdoot to rupee one will not affect even poorest of the poor who may be using just one or two post-cards in a month, while he may be burdened indirectly through ta...