India Post turbocharges small companies’ export recreation in UP

By PTI

LUCKNOW: Dak Niryat Kendras (DNK) arrange by India Post in main cities throughout Uttar Pradesh are serving to small companies to export their merchandise to markets overseas, serving to them lower your expenses, and likewise obviating the necessity for middlemen.

As of now, the ability is being supplied by the India submit in 9 cities — Lucknow, Varanasi, Pilibhit, Allahabad, Noida, Saharanpur, Nagina, Mahoba, and Ghazipur.

Meant for business exports by MSME (Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises), the service has boosted the earnings of small companies together with those working beneath the One District, One Product (ODOP) scheme of the Uttar Pradesh authorities.

The DNK in Prayagraj and Varanasi — each positioned in economically backward Eastern Uttar Pradesh — have additionally obtained beneficial response from native companies.

Ravindra Kumar, a 3rd era producer of Kaleen carpets based mostly in Prayagraj, was on the verge of quitting his ancestral commerce and shut down his store when his enterprise was hit by the coronavirus outbreak.

“In those days, the only option was to export our goods abroad, especially to the markets in America and Europe. But the cost of export via private exporters was high and the process cumbersome. The DNKs have resolved this problem for us,” he stated.

Kumar now books his carpets for business export on the native DNK.

The carpets are then taken to the Foreign Post Office (FPO) of India Post in Delhi earlier than being exported.

During all this, Kumar is just not required to go to any workplace and tracks the motion of his carpets on-line.

India Post officers say that with the lively involvement of Union Minister of Railways and Communication Ashwini Vaishnav, the DNK has turn out to be an empowering service for small companies.

Vivek Kumar Daksh, Postmaster General HQ Region, Lucknow stated, “The foreign Post offices are linked with the Customs department which simplifies the process of custom clearance of goods. In case there is any issue with the customs, it is raised online for the businessman to track. Earlier, exporters had to visit Foreign Post Offices at limited FPOs to file PBE (Postal Bill of Export) which was difficult for people in remote locations. With digital solutions, exporters can file PBE online which saves time and cost,” he added.

The system has additionally helped in eradicating the non-public exporters and customs brokers who used to play the position of middlemen and who took a fats chunk from the earnings of small companies.

Parvez Alam of Pratapgarh, who runs a small enterprise of wood toys and exports them with DNK, stated, “After moving to DNKs from private exporters we save almost 30 per cent of our cost. We plan to use this money to expand our business.”

Considering that a lot of the shoppers utilizing DNK are small companies with restricted technological knowhow, the postal division has deployed skilled Dak Niryat Sahayaks to information artisans and MSMEs exporters on using DNK portal.

“These Dak Niryat Sahayaks also provide information about the process of GST registration, generation of Import-Export Code, listing products including ODOP/GI tagged on e-commerce portals and booking etc,” stated the officer.

LUCKNOW: Dak Niryat Kendras (DNK) arrange by India Post in main cities throughout Uttar Pradesh are serving to small companies to export their merchandise to markets overseas, serving to them lower your expenses, and likewise obviating the necessity for middlemen.

As of now, the ability is being supplied by the India submit in 9 cities — Lucknow, Varanasi, Pilibhit, Allahabad, Noida, Saharanpur, Nagina, Mahoba, and Ghazipur.

Meant for business exports by MSME (Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises), the service has boosted the earnings of small companies together with those working beneath the One District, One Product (ODOP) scheme of the Uttar Pradesh authorities.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

The DNK in Prayagraj and Varanasi — each positioned in economically backward Eastern Uttar Pradesh — have additionally obtained beneficial response from native companies.

Ravindra Kumar, a 3rd era producer of Kaleen carpets based mostly in Prayagraj, was on the verge of quitting his ancestral commerce and shut down his store when his enterprise was hit by the coronavirus outbreak.

“In those days, the only option was to export our goods abroad, especially to the markets in America and Europe. But the cost of export via private exporters was high and the process cumbersome. The DNKs have resolved this problem for us,” he stated.

Kumar now books his carpets for business export on the native DNK.

The carpets are then taken to the Foreign Post Office (FPO) of India Post in Delhi earlier than being exported.

During all this, Kumar is just not required to go to any workplace and tracks the motion of his carpets on-line.

India Post officers say that with the lively involvement of Union Minister of Railways and Communication Ashwini Vaishnav, the DNK has turn out to be an empowering service for small companies.

Vivek Kumar Daksh, Postmaster General HQ Region, Lucknow stated, “The foreign Post offices are linked with the Customs department which simplifies the process of custom clearance of goods. In case there is any issue with the customs, it is raised online for the businessman to track. Earlier, exporters had to visit Foreign Post Offices at limited FPOs to file PBE (Postal Bill of Export) which was difficult for people in remote locations. With digital solutions, exporters can file PBE online which saves time and cost,” he added.

The system has additionally helped in eradicating the non-public exporters and customs brokers who used to play the position of middlemen and who took a fats chunk from the earnings of small companies.

Parvez Alam of Pratapgarh, who runs a small enterprise of wood toys and exports them with DNK, stated, “After moving to DNKs from private exporters we save almost 30 per cent of our cost. We plan to use this money to expand our business.”

Considering that a lot of the shoppers utilizing DNK are small companies with restricted technological knowhow, the postal division has deployed skilled Dak Niryat Sahayaks to information artisans and MSMEs exporters on using DNK portal.

“These Dak Niryat Sahayaks also provide information about the process of GST registration, generation of Import-Export Code, listing products including ODOP/GI tagged on e-commerce portals and booking etc,” stated the officer.