India Post Records Highest -Ever First Quarter Revenue of Over ₹4,000 Crores, Registering 22% Year-on-Year Growth:Jyotiraditya M. Scindia

The Department of Posts convened its Quarterly Business Review Meeting yesterday, for Q1 of FY 2026–27 at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, chaired by Union Minister of Communications and DoNER, Shri Jyotiraditya M. Scindia, in the esteemed presence of the Minister of State for Communications, Dr. Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani. The strategic gathering brought together Heads of Postal Circles from across the country to review the Department's business performance during the first quarter and deliberate on India Post's evolving roadmap for business transformation.

Reviewing the Department's performance, Union Minister Shri Scindia noted that India Post has commenced FY 2026–27 on a positive trajectory. Against an ambitious annual revenue target of ₹19,803 crore, the Department generated ₹4,009 crore during the first quarter, registering 22% year-on-year growth over the corresponding quarter of the previous FY 2025–26 and achieving 81% of the Q1 target.

Congratulating all the members of the India Post family for their dedication and unwavering commitment, the Union Minister acknowledged the relentless efforts of employees across the country in strengthening the Department's service delivery and contributing to its continued growth. The milestone reflects the Department's sustained efforts towards modernization, business transformation and customer-centric service delivery under the vision of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi for a digitally empowered and future-ready postal network.

The Union Minister reviewed the performance of all 6 Business Verticals—Mails, Parcels, Postal Life Insurance/Rural Postal Life Insurance (PLI/RPLI), Post Office Savings Bank (POSB), International Relations & Global Business (IR&GB), and Citizen Centric Services (CCS). While appreciating the encouraging overall performance, he highlighted the following key achievements and directed the Department to build upon the best practices demonstrated by high-performing Circles:

• Among the business verticals, Citizen Centric Services (CCS) recorded the highest year-on-year growth of 86%, followed by Parcel (50%), Mails (42%), International Relations & Global Business (IR&GB) (34%), Postal Life Insurance/Rural Postal Life Insurance (PLI/RPLI) (20%), and Post Office Savings Bank (POSB) (10%), reflecting broad-based growth across the Department's business portfolio.

• India Post achieved revenue of ₹4,009 crore during Q1 FY 2026–27 against the quarterly target of ₹4,951 crore, registering 81% achievement and 22% year-on-year growth over Q1 FY 2025–26. Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and West Bengal emerged as the top three performing Postal Circles overall.

The best-performing Circles across the business verticals and their percentage achievements against targets were:

• Citizen Centric Services: West Bengal (107%), Uttar Pradesh (106%).
• Parcel: Bihar (121%), Tamil Nadu (115%)
• Mail: Andhra Pradesh (106%).
• PLI/RPLI: West Bengal (97%), Jammu & Kashmir (96%).
• POSB: Chhattisgarh (124%), Andhra Pradesh (110%) and Jharkhand (107%).
• IR&GB: Kerala (83%), Rajasthan (81%).