1. The full form of PIN code is Postal Index Number.

2. It was introduced by Shri Bhikaji Velankar to make the postal distribution easy.

3. With the 75th year of independence, the Indian PIN code system has also completed its silver jubilee1.

4. The Postal Service’s PIN code was introduced in India on August 15, 1972.

5. The six-digit code is used to send couriers, letters and other postal items across the country.

6. The PinCode system in India was introduced by Shriram Bhikaji Velankar.

7. The sanskrit scholar Velankar was the additional secretary in the Union Ministry of Communications and a senior member of the Posts and Telegraph Boards.

8. India is one among the countries with the biggest postal network over the globe.

9. It has around 1.5 lakh post offices across the country.

10. The process of sorting and delivering mails turned chaotic due to similar names in the different cities or because of language barriers.

11. So, to ease up the process, the pin code system was introduced.

12. The country was divided into 9 geographical areas and the pin codes were allotted accordingly.

13. Out of which, one point was reserved exclusively for Army Postal Service.

14. According to Postal department, a total of 19101 pins have been alloted in the countr.

15. The first digit stands for postal region, for example East, West, North or South.

16. The second digit denotes the sub-region, and the third region represents the sorting district.

17. Whereas, the remaining numbers narrow the geography further to provide information about the location of the post office.

18. Later on, these parcels, pincode, letters and goods are delivered to the post office or courier agencies on the basis of pincode segregation.

19. And from here all these are moved forward to the recipient address

20. The sanskrit scholar and poet Shri Ram Bhikaji is known as the father of Postal Index Numbers.