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- The Minister of State for Communications has released a Memorial Postage Stamp on the occasion of the Golden Jubilee of PIN Code, in Gujarat.
- He also launched the e-Passbook. It will provide the following services:
- No need to visit the Post Office to print the Passbook or to know the balance.
- It will save a lot of manual work.
- No need to have a separate Mobile Banking app.
- Simple and user-friendly webpage.
- On this occasion, the Minister launched the ‘PLI Mobile Training App’ to provide online training.
- The App contains training material in audio/visual mode.
Pincode
- The Department of Posts comes under the Ministry of Communications.
- Postal Index Number (PIN) or Pincode is used by India Post for the numbering of the post office or post code system.
- It is a 6 digits code.
- The first digit reflects the region.
- The second digit reflects the sub-region.
- The third dight reflects the district.
- The last three digits represent the post office code.
- India has nine PIN zones.
- Zone 1 - Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Chandigarh.
- Zone 2 - Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand.
- Zone 3 - Rajasthan, Gujarat, Daman and Diu, Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
- Zone 4 - Maharashtra, Goa, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh.
- Zone 5 - Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka.
- Zone 6 - Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Puducherry, Lakshadweep.
- Zone 7 - West Bengal, Odisha, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, Meghalaya, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Assam, Sikkim.
- Zone 8 - Bihar, Jharkhand.
- Zone 9 - Army Postal Service (APS), Field Post Office (FPO).
https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1867288