WHAT IS PIN CODE SYSTEM ?

 6] WHAT IS PIN CODE SYSTEM ?

India is a vast COuntry with thousands of

post offices spread all over. These post

offices collect and distribute letters and other

articles to difterent addresses in a number

of languages throughout the country. To

facilitate sorting and speeding up of the mail

delivery, a system has been developed,

known as PIN Code system. Do you know

what this system is?The word PIN stands for Postal Index

Number. The PIN code system divides India

into eight Postal lndex Zones. Each zone is

sub-divided into postal circles.The POstal Index Number Systemconsists of six digits. Each digit has a meaning

and serves a specific purpose. The first digit

on the extreme left represents the zone in

the country, the second and third the sub

zone and the manner of routing the mail. In

this way, the first three digits together

indicate the sorting district. The three digits

on the right show the post office of delivery

within a sorting district. Al| the six digits

together identify an individual post office or

a delivery unit.The PIN Codes of the General PostOffices (GPOS) of some important towns

are mentioned here:

Kolkata 700001; Mumbai 400001;

Hyderabad 500001; Ahmedabad 380001;

Chennai 600001; Bangalore 560002; Kanpur

208001; Jaipur 302001; New Delhi 110001;

Patna 800001.The following are the eight zones ofPostal Index Number system:

              Zone No. 1: Delhi, Haryana, Punjab,

Himachal

Pradesh, and Jammu andChandigarh,KashmirZone No. 2: Uttar Pradesh

Zone No. 3: Rajasthan, Gujarat, Damanand Diu, and Dadra and

Nagar HaveliZone No. 4: Maharashtra,

Zone No. 5: Andhra Pradesh and

Zone No. 6: Tamil Nadu, Kerala and

Zone No. 7: West Bengal, Andaman andGoaandMadhya Pradesh

Karnataka

LakshadweepNicobar Islands, Orissa,

Arunachal Pradesh, Assam,

Manipur,

Nagaland and TripuraMeghalaya,Zone No. 8: Bihar