Postal service needs to be further enhanced technologically: Secretary Aryal

Kathmandu:  Secretary at the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Radhika Aryal, has insisted on the need for improvements from the structural level to the regulatory framework to increase the relevancy of the postal service in today’s context.

Speaking at an inaugural session of the Postage Stamp Exhibition organised by the Department of Postal Services on the occasion of the 150th World Post Day today, the Secretary echoed the need to make the postal service more technology-friendly and attract the interests of youth to it.

Assuring of the government (Ministry’s) support to further strengthen the service, she urged the Department employees to deliver with additional creativity.

The exhibition is supported by the Nepal Philatelic Society and it displays postage stamps from across the world including Nepal.

On the occasion, Department’s Officiating Director General Dhruba Raj Acharya said the postal service that had commenced in Nepal in 1935 BS from a post house has to resist numerous challenges brought by the changing time.

Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Prithvi Subba Gurung, extended his best wishes on the occasion through a video message. In the message, he hinted that Nepal’s post services suffered ups and downs during different times.

The celebration of the Day marks the establishment of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) on October 9, 1874, and the theme for this year’s celebration is “150 years of enabling communication and empowering peoples across nations”.

Nepal has been a member of UPU since July 11, 1956.

Director at the Department, Bishal Sapkota, Nepal Philatelic Society’s Chair Chandra Rabi Shrestha, and trade union leader Tanka Prasad Humagain gave their views on focusing on the past, present, and future scenario of the postal service.

The day-long event features postage stamps collected by Milan Chandra Joshi, Mandira Pradhananga, Ridima Shakya, Dinesh Raj Maskey, Dipendra Ratna Shakya, Kishor Sharma, and others.