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The Minister of State for Communications has released a Memorial Postage Stamp on the occasion of the Golden Jubilee of PIN Code, in Gujarat.
He also launched the e-Passbook. It will provide the following services:
- No need to visit the Post Office to print the Passbook or to know the balance.
- It will save a lot of manual work.
- No need to have a separate Mobile Banking app.
- Simple and user-friendly webpage.
On this occasion, the Minister launched the ‘PLI Mobile Training App’ to provide online training.
- The App contains training material in audio/visual mode.

Pincode

The Department of Posts comes under the Ministry of Communications.
Postal Index Number (PIN) or Pincode is used by India Post for the numbering of the post office or post code system.
It is a 6 digits code.
- The first digit reflects the region.
- The second digit reflects the sub-region.
- The third dight reflects the district.
- The last three digits represent the post office code.
India has nine PIN zones.
- Zone 1 - Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Chandigarh.
- Zone 2 - Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand.
- Zone 3 - Rajasthan, Gujarat, Daman and Diu, Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
- Zone 4 - Maharashtra, Goa, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh.
- Zone 5 - Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka.
- Zone 6 - Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Puducherry, Lakshadweep.
- Zone 7 - West Bengal, Odisha, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, Meghalaya, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Assam, Sikkim.
- Zone 8 - Bihar, Jharkhand.
- Zone 9 - Army Postal Service (APS), Field Post Office (FPO).