Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Trichy tops in Rural Postal Life Insurance

The central region of Tamil Nadu postal circle headquartered at Trichy bagged the numero uno position in the country by selling Rs 1,017 crore worth of Rural Postal Life Insurance (RPLI) in 2007-08, surpassing the target of Rs 690 crore by 47 per cent. The Vijayawada region followed by garnering a business of worth Rs 650 crore.

Addressing the media here, SP Rajalingam, post master general, central region-Trichy, said the region had, since the launch of RPLI in 1995-96, sold 830,000 policies for a sum assured of Rs 3,557 crore.

Trichy also recorded an increase in international money transfer service during the year by enabling 416,000 transactions over previous year's 169,000 transactions. The region covers 24 head post offices, 64 sub offices and 2,839 branch offices.

Source: Business Standard

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