POSTMEN IN NEW ROLE
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) NEW DELHI, April 23.
India’s postmen will soon begin providing a new service with the morning mail—supplying packets of contraceptives to boost the familyplanning programme in rural areas.
Under a joint scheme by the Family Planning Department and the Post Office, postmen will be licensed to sell the contraceptives at only only five paise (about half a cent) for three. The postmen will pocket the money as a service charge, the Government supplying the contraceptives free. The authorities believe that the rural population, normally shy of buying contraceptives from a shop, will be happier about buying them on the doorstep from postmen.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31662, 24 April 1968, Page 17
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