Celebrating ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’ on PLI Day (12.10.2021)
As Circles are aware, Ministry of Culture has allocated the week from 11th to 17th October 2021 to Department of Posts for celebration of ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’.
In this connection, a copy of the OM dated 17.08.2021 issued by Coordination Section, Dak Bhawan is enclosed for kind information of Circles.
2. As per the schedule of activities in the said OM, following activities are required to be carried out on PLI Day:
(i) Organising financial inclusion melas in each district of the country on 12.10.2021.
(ii) A minimum of 1,00,000 (one lakh) new PLI/RPLI policies are to be procured on 12.10.2021.
4. Accordingly, Circles are requested to identify the locations (urban/rural) for conducting melas on PLI Day (12.10.2021) and send the list of such identified locations to PLI Directorate in excel format by 17.09.2021 (format enclosed). Circles are requested to kindly ensure that the villages identified for PLI Day melas (12.10.2021) are different from villages identified for Banking Day melas (11.10.2021).
5 Circles are requested to kindly ensure that a minimum of 25 new PLI/RPLI policies may be procured in each mela, so that the target of procuring a minimum of one lakh new policies on PLI Day may be achieved.