The government is planning to inter-connect 24,000 post offices within two years that will allow customers to access their accounts from any of these branches and enjoy ATM facility.In this connection, Department of Post will soon start a three-month pilot project across 122 Post Offices on the lines of core banking technology.AIR correspondent reports that Department of Post has a network of over 1.55 lakh post offices across the country but around 1.3 lakh offices are operated by either part-time or contract employees. As per data shared with Parliament, there were over 26 crore operational small savings accounts in the post offices as on March 31, 2012 having deposits worth 1.9 lakh crore rupees.