Colourful start to All India Postal Cultural Meet in Mysuru

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Jitender Gupta, DG, Postal Services, Postal Directorate, New Delhi, renowned violin maestros Mysore M. Manjunath and Mysore M. Nagaraj and different   dignitaries astatine  the inauguration of All India Postal Cultural Meet successful  Mysuru connected  Monday.

Jitender Gupta, DG, Postal Services, Postal Directorate, New Delhi, renowned violin maestros Mysore M. Manjunath and Mysore M. Nagaraj and different dignitaries astatine the inauguration of All India Postal Cultural Meet successful Mysuru connected Monday. | Photo Credit: M.A. Sriram

Postal employees from crossed the state person gathered successful Mysuru to enactment successful the five-day All India Postal Cultural Meet, which commenced with a colourful inaugural ceremonial connected the Karnataka State Open University field connected Monday.

Inaugurating the event, Jitendra Gupta, Director General of Postal Services, New Delhi, said the nonsubjective of the All India Postal Cultural Meet-2026 (AIPCM) is to showcase the affluent diverseness of the country’s performing arts.

Internationally acclaimed violinist Mysore M. Manjunath, who was the main guest, remarked that customers visiting station offices consciousness arsenic if they are entering their ain homes alternatively than a authorities office. The postal section is known for prime work and not lone delivers letters but besides carries emotions, adding that it has retained its relevance adjacent successful the epoch of societal media.

K. Prakash, Chief Postmaster General, Karnataka Postal Circle, who was present, said Indian creation and civilization proceed to bid respect crossed the world.

A peculiar commemorative postal envelope marking the league was released connected the occasion.

Renowned violinist Mysore M. Nagaraj, Karnataka Postal Circle Director Sandesh Mahadevappa, Bengaluru Central Region Director V. Tara, and Director of the Postal Training Centre, Mysuru, Ashish Singh Thakur were present.

The conference, being held from February 16 to February 20, features performances by 335 participants representing 21 postal circles from crossed the country.

Organisers said the Postal Department is committed to worker welfare, originative expression, and assemblage engagement. Events similar the AIPCM play a captious relation successful nurturing teamwork, communal respect, and a vibrant organisational civilization among the postal employees nationwide.

This is the 3rd clip that Mysuru is hosting the AIPCM aft a spread of astir 2 decades. The 37th AIPCM (2024-25) was hosted by the Kerala Postal Circle astatine Kozhikode successful March past year. The Karnataka Postal Circle performed impressively successful assorted taste events astatine past year’s meet. The participants from Karnataka secured aggregate first, second, and 3rd places successful vocal euphony (Hindustani and Carnatic), instrumental music, classical dance, radical dance, and mono acting.

The Karnataka ellipse was the second-best ellipse astatine the nationalist level successful past year’s event. The postal ellipse officials said our employees volition enactment up an astonishing amusement astatine this year’s meet.

The valedictory of AIPCM volition beryllium held connected February 20 astatine 8:45 a.m. astatine the KSOU campus, successful which renowned Hindustani vocalist Pandit Venkatesh Kumar volition beryllium the main guest. K. Prakash, Chief Postmaster General, Karnataka Circle, Bengaluru, volition preside.

The events volition beryllium hosted some astatine the Postal Training Centre successful Nazarbad and the KSOU field here. Elaborate arrangements person been made for the event, arsenic the employees and their household members person travel to enactment and widen support.

Published - February 16, 2026 07:07 p.m. IST

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