POSTAL STAFF COLLEGE INDIA, RENAMED AS "RAFI AHMED KIDWAI NATIONAL POSTAL ACADEMY (RAKNPA)

No.2-04/2009-Trg.

Government of India

Ministry of Communications & IT

Department of Posts, (Training Division)

Dak Bhawan, Sansad Marg,

New Delhi – 110001

Dated: 31.10.2011

To

             All Heads of Circles,

             Additional Director General APS,

             West Block-III, RK Puram,

             New Delhi-110066

             Chief General Manager,

             Business Development Directorate,

             New Delhi-110001

            Chief General Manager,

            Postal Life Insurance,

            New Delhi-110 021

Subject: - Renaming of the Postal Staff College India.

            A proposal for change in the name of the Postal Staff College India

(PSCI) was placed before the Postal Services Board. The Board, in its sixth meeting held on 21.09.2011, after detailed discussion, has agreed that in order to reflect the true character of the institution and its future aspiration, PSCI needs to be upgraded as a National Academy. The Board has, accordingly recommended that PSCI be renamed after Shri Rafi Ahmed Kidwal, the first Communication Minister of Independent India, a freedom fighter and one of the foremost nation builders of the post independence era as "Rafi Ahmed Kidwai National Postal Academy (RAKNPA)". The recommended actions of the Board have been approved by the Competent Authority.

2.         It is, therefore, hereby notified for information of all concerned that the Postal Staff College India, C.G.O. Complex Ghazibad 201 002, and will hereafter be known as Rafi Ahmed Kidwai National Postal Academy (RAKNPA), C.G.O. Complex, Ghaziabad – 201 002.

Sd/-

( A.Kumaraswamy)

Assistant Director (Training)