The Department of Posts has launched a scheme called Five Star Villages , to ensure universal coverage of flagship postal schemes in rural areas of the country.
The scheme seeks to bridge the gaps in public awareness and reach of postal products and services, especially in interior villages.
All postal products and services will be made available and marketed and publicized at the village level, under the Five Star Villages scheme.
The schemes covered under the Five Star scheme include:
Savings Bank accounts, Recurrent Deposit Accounts, NSC / KVP certificates.
Sukanya Samridhi Accounts/ PPF Accounts.
Funded Post Office Savings Account linked India Post Payments Bank Accounts.
Postal Life Insurance Policy/Rural Postal Life Insurance Policy.
If a village attains universal coverage for four schemes from the above list, then that village gets four-star status; if a village completes three schemes, then that village gets three-star status and so on.
The scheme will be implemented by a team of five Gramin Dak Sevaks. This team will be headed by the Branch Post Master of the concerned Branch Office.