INDIA POST TO INTRODUCE 'MEGHDOOT
98' IN MAURITIUS FOR COMPUTERISATION OF POSTAL SERVICES
INSTITUTIONALISING
FRAMEWORK FOR COOPERATION IN SPECTRUM MANAGEMENT AND STANDARDISATION
INDIA AND
MAURITIUS SIGN MoU
India and Mauritius
have identified key deliverables in the field of Telecom and Postal
Sectors by institutionalising a framework for cooperation. A Memorandum
of Understanding (MoU) to this effect was signed in Port Louis
(Mauritius) today between the Union Minister of Parliamentary
Affairs, Communications and Information Technology Shri Pramod
Mahajan and Mr. Deelchand Jeeha, Minister of Information Technology
and Telecommunications, Government of Mauritius.
Speaking on the occasion,
Shri Pramod Mahajan gave an insight to the recent initiatives
of the postal department specially the ‘Gramin Sanchar Sewaks’
and also the ‘Meghdoot Post Card’. He said that the effort of
the Government would be to make the Post Office the ‘Hub’ for
providing the tools that would facilitate the working of the community
specially in the field of IT, Telecom, Banking and Insurance services.
The Mauritian Minister for Communication and IT, Mr. Deelchand
Jeeha said that this MoU was extremely important for the future
transformation of Mauritius as the Cyber Island. He said that
Mauritius was keen to learn from the Indian Postal Services in
the areas of life insurance, computerisation and the availability
of software for multi-purpose value added products and services.
He said that this MoU would help by paving the way for convergence
to actually happen within Mauritius.
A key feature of
the MoU is that India Post would work together with the Mauritius
Post for the introduction of the ‘Meghdoot 98’ in Mauritius, modalities
for which would be worked out. Mauritius had expressed its keen
interest in the software package "Meghdoot 98", developed by the
India Post, to computerise their postal services. The Mauritius
side also expressed its desire to introduce postal life insurance
in Mauritius in cooperation with India Post. It was decided that
India would facilitate introduction of postal life insurance in
Mauritius, for which there would be an exchange of officials between
the two postal administrations.
Under the MoU, both
the countries have also undertaken bilateral strategic cooperation
in the context of convergence of technologies in the telecom sector.
Main thrust is on exchange of information in the field of Spectrum
Management and Standardisation. This would also entail info dissemination,
management and exchange of telecom personnel. The MoU also outlines
undertaking partnership projects and joint ventures in third countries.
The MoU signed today would be for a period of five years to be
extended automatically for another period of five years.
