Readers’ Mail (Tirunelveli) : The Hindu

CONSTRUCT BUILDING : FOR POST OFFICE

The Jawahar Nagar Post Office in N.G.O. Colony, Tirunelveli, is at present functioning in a rented portion of a private residential house.

There is no roofing in front of the counter and hence the public who visit the post office have to stand in the open.

As there is no seating arrangement for the public, they are put to much inconvenience.

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Nowadays, who else other than senior citizens visit post offices? The N.G.O. Colony consists of mostly retired government employees and teachers who are in their advanced age and they find it too difficult to transact their business in the absence of a suitable seating arrangement.

In this connection, I wish to point out that the NGO colony Cooperative Housing Society has already allotted a prime land on the colony's North Main road to the Department of Posts for the construction of a post office. But the vacant site lies unutilised for decades, serving now only as a dumping yard.

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Hence it is requested that the local postal department personnel may take up the matter with their higher-ups for allotment of funds for the construction of a post office with all modern amenities.

S. Nallasivan, Tirunelveli.