176301

Why is our Bakloh's Pin Code 176301?

Have you ever wondered? We thought and began writing about PINCODE 176301. Pin code system is an easy way implemented by the Postal system of India to sort out the numbering of Post offices in India. It makes an easy way to recognize the territory any post office belongs to. The PIN Code system was first introduced in India on 15th August, 1972. Shriram Bhikaji Velankar, an additional secretary in the Union Ministry of Communications at that time, is the man behind its implementation. It is a successful system of classification and sorting out the bulky Postal structure of India.Postal Index Number or PIN or Pin code is the numbering of the post office or post code system used by India Post. The PIN code is 6 digits long.

PIN CODE 176301, what it represents?

Let’s check.  The first digit 1 is for  the Northern region i.e. states and territories of  Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh and Chandigarh.The second digit 7 represents the sub region. Here the sub region means the State Himachal Pradesh. It means that 17, the first 2 digits are representing Himachal Pradesh here. What the 3rd digit represents is the sorting district as per the territory divided by Postal department and here Chamba and Kangra of Himachal Pradesh are kept together with number assigned equal to 6 .Bakloh falls in this sorting district or region hence the third digit is 6. Meaninghereby that the first three digits of bakloh are 176 because Bakloh falls in Chamba- Kangra region of Himachal Pradesh. The fourth digit 3 represents the service route on which a delivery office is located, ours falls in Pathankot Chamba route or one can say that district Chamba is represented by 4th digit 3 of 176301. It is important to mention here that the fourth digit is 0 for offices in the core area of the sorting district.The fourth digit is 0 in Kangra of Chamba- Kangra region.region. Thereafter the last  2 digits of Bakloh Post Office Pin code are 01, which are assigned to respective Post Offices in the above said regions as per the Chronology of establishment. Hence PIN CODE of Bakloh is 176301.

Digit

1

7

6

3

0

1

What it represents

Northern Region of India (excluding Uttarakhand  and Uttar Pradesh)

Himachal Pradesh

Chamba – Kangra Region, (Kangra being the Core)

District Chamba (Service Route)

Post office’s own number for the service route, Bakloh is Number 1

In short we can say that in India the 9 PIN zones cover the Indian states and union territories as follows

  1. First character of PIN Code represent the Region
  2. Second character of PIN Code represent the Sub Region
  3. Third Character of PIN Code represent the sorting District in INDIA.
  4. Last 3 Characters of Pin Code represent the Post Office Name in District.

About Post Office Bakloh

The above explanation is more then enough to understand the structure of Postal Department in India. Let’s know a little more about Post Office Bakloh. Post Office Bakloh is an old Post Office built in the time when Britishers were reigning India. Then also it functioned efficiently (As told by my father). It is Sub Post Office presently and has facilities of sorting, processing and delivering mail to recipents. Bakloh Post Office falls under Chamba postal division of Himachal Pradesh Postal circle. It is located adjacent to the so called Bus Stand  of Bakloh. It has the facility of quarters for its employees. It is a  big building and beautifully made too. All the basic functions of a Sub Post Office are catered here with ease. The employees of the Bakloh Post office have always remained cordial and helpful as is the station itself. Bakloh post Office offers all postal services including mails, parcels, money transfer, banking, insurance, PO Box distribution and retail services.

The 6 digit pin code of Bakloh itself tells about the historical superiority of the place. The last 2 digits are 01 , telling that chronologically it got the priority over Chamba and Dalhousie. Let’s see the Pin codes of some of the well known Post Offices of Himachal Pradesh- 
1. Shimla- 171001
2. Chamba- 176314
3. Kangra-  176001
4. Dharamshala- 176216
5. Dalhousie– 176304
6. Khajjiyar- 176314
7. Manali- 175131
8. Mandi- 175001
9. Hamirpur- 177001
10. Solan- 173212
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