New Town will get a second post office at the end of the month. The department of posts will inaugurate another facility in Action Area III on March 23. 

The announcement was made by chief post-master general Arundhaty Ghosh at the inauguration of Kolpex 2015, a philatelic exhibition taking place at Nazrul Tirtha. 

At present, the sole post office in New Town operates out of a small rented place behind the old New Town thana. “It has just two counters and even though the volume of mail is not huge, the six mailmen there have to cover a vast area. A new post office will reduce their load,” said Kirity Gupta, senior superintendent, east Calcutta division. 
The new post office will be housed in the ground floor of the government’s Vocational Training Institute, ahead of Unitech Uniworld City and near the second campus of St. Xavier’s College.

Neither would residents of Action Area II have to wait long for a post office of their own. Responding to the chief postmaster general’s plea for built-up space, urban development and municipal affairs secretary Debashis Sen promised her accommodation in the essential services buildings he is planning there. “Construction should be over by April,” he said, after inaugurating the stamp exhibition.

The display is on till Saturday from noon to 8pm. Stamps are also on sale at the counter, including the department’s showcase initiative My Stamp, in which one can get a picture of one’s choice printed alongside a stamp. 

A sit-and-draw contest was held on Wednesday. “We collect stamps and are students of art as well. So we came over to take part,” said FE Block sisters Asmita and Anushka Basak. The exhibition has stamps on themes like cinema, Calcutta, Rabindranath Tagore, Swami Vivekananda, Lord Buddha and printing technology.