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COMMUNICATIONS
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POSTS AND TELEGRAPH
Post Offices: The Ahmadnagar postal division is a very old division existing much earlier than 1884. Besides the post office at Ahmadnagar, there were 25 sub-post offices and 32 village post offices in the district during those good old days.
During the subsequent period postal facilities were extended over practically the entire district. Now every town is provided with postal, telegraph and telephone facilities while the same facilities have been extended to most of the bigger villages.
The following table gives the statistics relating to postal facilities in Ahmadnagar district:-
TABLE No. 4-POSTAL, TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE STATISTICS
IN AHMADNAGAR DISTRICT DURING 1961-62, 1965-66, 1968-69, 1969-70 AND 1970-71
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Year |
Number of post offices |
Number of telegraph offices |
Number of letterboxes |
Number of postmen |
Number of telephones |
Number of radio licences issued and renewed |
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(1) |
(2) |
(3) |
(4) |
(5) |
(6) |
(7) |
1961-62 |
365 |
30 |
738 |
154 |
429 |
10,882 |
1965-66 |
428 |
41 |
784 |
154 |
N.A. |
15,468 |
1968-69 |
480 |
41 |
779 |
147 |
1,833 |
33,457 |
1969-70 |
482 |
43 |
785 |
151 |
1,954 |
35,240 |
1970-71 |
507 |
45 |
796 |
155 |
2,195 |
36,397 |
N. A.=Not available.
Source.-Bureau of Economics and Statistics, Government of Maharashtra.
It is patent from the above figures that there was no material change in the number of post offices per lakh population during the years from 1962-63 to 1967-68. The increase of one post office per lakh of population was meagre. The highest average of post offices in 1963-64 was found in Nevasa taluka, viz., 35, followed by Shrigonda 33, Parner 32, Shevgaon 30, Kopargaon 30 and Sangamner 29.
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