These are areas that do not have a bank or where a large number of people gather every day and the Postal Department is trying to reach out to the public in these places.
A mobile currency exchange van has been pressed into service to Government Hospitals, maternity homes, tribal areas, hamlets in the foot hills and remote villages in the region to help the public exchange Rs. 500 and Rs. 1000 denomination notes by producing the prescribed documents.
Postmaster General for western region Sharda Sampath told
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