Government urged to thwart conspiracy of shifting post office

DIBRUGARH, Feb 16: The postal service in the region has touched its nadir in the absence of a Post Master General (PMG) and Director of Postal Service (DPS) for more than a year. The attempt is now being made to shift the PMG office from Dibrugarh to Guwahati.The office of the Post Master General created in 1990 was shifted from Guwahati to Dibrugarh in April 2001 in order to monitor the postal services in the region. The office controls the postal network of Dibrugarh region covering an area of 14 districts and 2 autonomous councils of Asom besides Railway Mail Service (RMS) to the states of Meghalaya, Tripura, Nagaland, Mizoram, Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh.As the office works are now being controlled from Guwahati due to lack senior officials, the all-round postal service has deteriorated to its lowest level. The Chief Post Master General and Director Postal Services (HQ) hardly take trip to Dibrugarh or other areas of the region to take stock of the situation. It is alleged that due to absence of a Postmaster General in the Dibrugarh Office, the administrative works delayed causing immense hardship to the public as well as members of staff as all the related papers are required to be sent to Guwahati which take sufficient time.Though the Postal Directorate, New Delhi had issued an order to post one PMG at Dibrugarh nearly four months back but the person concerned is yet to oblige the Postal Directorate’s order and join the post.It is alleged that the Chief PMG Guwahati had shown interest to shift the office of PMG from Dibrugarh and accordingly he is curtailing the staff strength by withdrawing and abolishing a number of posts of the Dibrugarh region.The people of the region urged upon the State Government and Dibrugarh MP to intervene into the matter and thwart the conspiracy of shifting PMG’s office from Dibrugarh.