The Department of Posts has launched a scheme called Five Star Villages, to ensure universal coverage of flagship postal schemes in rural areas of the country.

The Five Star Villages Scheme sounds typically among the most commons types say, Swachh Bharat, Financial Inclusion and Literacy or Infrastructure amenities. Here is the caution for preventing a blunder.

Five Star Villages Scheme

• The scheme seeks to bridge the gaps in public awareness and reach of postal products and services, especially in interior villages.
• The initiatives covered under the scheme include:

1. Savings Bank accounts, Recurrent Deposit Accounts, NSC / KVP certificates,
2. Sukanya Samridhi Accounts/ PPF Accounts,
3. Funded Post Office Savings Account linked India Post Payments Bank Accounts,
4. Postal Life Insurance Policy/Rural Postal Life Insurance Policy and
5. Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana Account / Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana Account.

• If a village attains universal coverage for four schemes from the above list, then that village gets four-star status; if a village completes three schemes, then that village gets three-star status and so on.

Its implementation

• The scheme will be implemented by a team of five Gramin Dak Sevaks who will be assigned a village for the marketing of all products, savings and insurance schemes of the Department of Posts.
• This team will be headed by the Branch Post Master of the concerned Branch Office. Mail overseer will keep personal watch on the progress of the team on daily basis.
• The teams will be led and monitored by concerned Divisional Head, Assistant Superintendents Posts and Inspector Posts.

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