
To ensure the ubiquitous coverage of postal schemes in the country, the Department of Posts (DoP) launched the Five Star Villages Scheme on September 11, 2020. The Department of Posts is a government-operated postal system in India that is considered a subsidiary of the Ministry of Communications. Generally referred to as “the Post Office” in India, DoP is a broadly distributed postal system in the world.
Five Star Villages Scheme has been launched to ensure that there should be a universal distribution and coverage of flagship portal schemes in the country’s rural areas. This scheme seeks to fill in the gap in public awareness and reach of postal products and services. In addition to this, the scheme aims to outreach the postal products and its services in small towns of the villages.
This is how the Home Page of the DoP website looks. Link of the website:-
https://www.indiapost.gov.in/vas/Pages/IndiaPostHome.aspx
The objective of Five Star Villages Scheme is listed below: –
Scheme name and its Details
|
|
Name of the Scheme |
Five Star Villages Scheme |
Launched by |
The Department of Posts (DoP) |
Benefits of the Scheme |
Interior Village areas |
Beneficiaries |
Small and lower-middle-class workers |
Note:- From the above mentioned five schemes, if a village attains universal coverage for four schemes, then that village gets four-star status, if a village completes three schemes, then that village get three-star status and gets 5 star status if covers all the 5 schemes.
Here is a tabular representation:-
Parameters |
Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana |
Public Provident Fund (PPF) |
Interest Rate |
7.1% (Q3, Oct-Dec. 2020) |
7.6% (Q3, Oct-Dec. 2020) |
Age |
15 Years |
|
Amount Payable on entry |
₹100 |
₹1000 |
Minimum Deposit |
₹500 |
₹250 |
Maximum Deposit |
₹1,50,000
|
₹1,50,000
|
Tax Benefit |
₹1,50,000
|
₹1,50,000
|
Maturity |
15 years |
21 years |
The strategy applied is to cover a total of 50 villages in each district. The idea is to identify the districts/areas for each region and two rural districts / areas.
Appropriate training and infrastructure covering all the schemes would be granted to all the branch offices in identified villages. Progress of the scheme and the achievement of the targets would be monitored by the Circle, Regional and Divisional levels. Whereas, the Chief Post Master General will review the Monthly progress.
As the name says, Aatmnirbhar Sena is a unit of people working to make the citizens of our country self-reliant. To support the people belonging to the backward areas of our society, Aatmnirbhar Sena works relentlessly. We never fail to support our government in implementing the several schemes by contributing to making them a success.
Launched by the Department of Posts, Five Star Villages scheme is a ray of hope for the citizens of rural areas of the country. The motive behind initiating this scheme is to ensure the universal coverage of postal schemes in the country. The scheme aims at filling the gaps in public awareness and reach of postal products and services.