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History of PIN code 50th year
August 18 , 2022
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- The 76th Independence Day coincides with another milestone in the country’s history.
- It was on August 15, 1972, 50 years ago, the Postal Index Number (PIN) was introduced in India.
- According to the Department of Posts, there were 23,344 post offices, primarily in urban areas, in India at the time of Independence.
- The PIN code was meant to ease the process of mail sorting and delivery in a country where different places, often, have the same or similar names, and letters are written in a wide variety of languages.
- The PIN is made up of six digits.
- The first number indicates the postal region — Northern, Eastern, Western, Southern; and number 9, which signifies the Army Postal Service.
- The person behind the initiative was Shriram Bhikaji Velankar, the then additional secretary in the Union Ministry of Communications.
- Globally, in the US, the Zone Improvement Plan (ZIP) code was introduced July 1, 1963.
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