Dedicated pin code for BIAL

Dedicated pin code for BIAL
Saturday May 24 2008 12:13 IST

G Virat Singh

BANGALORE: Passengers may miss their flights due to the poor connectivity to the new international airport at Devanahalli, but mails to the distant BIAL will not go astray as they generally do in India.

The new international airport, plagued with problems, is at least sure of getting its postal deliveries without hitches as it would have its own Postal Index Number (PIN) code.

The Bengaluru International Airport Limited (BIAL) has received a dedicated PIN code - 560300 - from the Karnataka Postal Circle.

The mail will now be sent directly to the airport from the sorting units, instead of to the nearby Yelahanka Post Office.

Mails addressed to it will go to its premises directly from the postal department’s Railway Mail Service (RMS) centre located at the Poornaprasad building on Race Course Road in the city.

Sources in the Karnataka Postal Circle told this website's newspaper that at present, mails received by the department by air, rail or road are first sent to the sorting units in the city and then to the area post office concerned, from where they are sent to the specific destinations.

The sources stated that the ‘India Post’ had launched a unique move to assign dedicated PIN codes to offices and institutions (both government and private) across the country.

The Postal Circle in Karnataka has so far assigned dedicated PIN codes to 58 offices and institutions in the city. The unique PIN codes are assigned to institutions and offices that receive more than 200 posts a day.

It will be the responsibility of the institutions and offices that have been assigned with specific PIN codes, to circulate the code.

The sources also disclosed that private companies such as ICICI, Accenture, Wipro, Sasken, IBM, Honeywell, Hewlett Packard and Tata Consultancy have been assigned PIN codes. However the surrounding areas will continue to have the old PIN codes.

Some of the government offices that have received specific PIN codes are; the offices of the Chief Minister (560 213), Chief Secretary to Government of Karnataka (560 214), State’s Finance Minister (560 237), state’s Home Minister (560 238), Health and Family Welfare Department (560 218), Rural Development Department (560 220) and Woman and Child Development (560 224), Accountant General’s Office, ISRO and the like