<span style="color: #222222;">Union Minister of Communications Ravi Shankar Prasad today said that the Department of Posts should strive for achieving the target of 25 crore savings accounts from the current 17 crore accounts in coming years. Speaking at an event of National Postal Week Celebrations in New Delhi, he said, it should also make efforts to link the same with the accounts of India Post Payments Bank for achieving the goal of financial inclusion. He urged the department to enhance considerably postal insurance accounts. Mr Prasad said that 3.05 crore insurance accounts in a population of 130 crore is unacceptable. He said, Postal Department should come forward to forge partnership with global companies and the administrative issues, if any, would be resolved amicably.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">  </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The Minister asked the senior officials to work on a set of special stamps on Mahabalipuram (Mamallapuram) in the wake of successful informal summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping due to its historic significance. He also directed the department to organize a Special Letter Writing Competition on Bapu, as a tribute to 150th Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, besides coming out with a set of stamps on unsung heroes of freedom movement and particularly of those imprisoned in Cellular Jail in Andaman and Nicobar Islands.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">  </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The Minister released a Mobile Banking App for Post Office Saving Bank customers, commemorative postage stamps on India Perfumes Agarwood and Orange Blossom and launched a Performance Dashboard of the Department of Posts. </span><br />''  <br />