Postal Department Releases Stamps To Commemorate History Of Transport In India

The Postal Department has released 20 stamps portraying the history of transportation in India, it includes palanquins, animal driven carriages and carts, rickshaws, vintage cars, buses, metro, trams.

Published: Friday, March 31, 2017, 18:10 [IST]

The automotive world in India has had diverse modes of transport, and the postal department of India is commemorating the history of transportation in the form of stamps.

Postal Department Commemorates India’s History Of Transport

The Postal Department of India has for the first time released 20 stamps portraying the history of transportation in the country, and it includes palanquins, animal driven carriages and carts, rickshaws, vintage cars, buses, metro rail and trams.

The special series of stamps have been labelled as 'Means of Transport through the Ages' and exhibited at the country's only transport museum - Heritage Transport Museum.

The Heritage Transport Museum have played a pivotal role in the formulation of these stamps as fifteen out of the twenty unique series stamps have pictures of vehicles that are now at the museum.

Ms Kalpana Rajsinghot, Postmaster General, Gurgaon Region, Haryana Circle, Department of Posts presented the special series stamps.

Also, present at the commemorative event, Tarun Thakral, Founder & Managing Trustee, Heritage Transportation Trust.

The commemorative stamps are in the form of small sheets in a prestige booklet published for the first time. Each stamp's value ranges between Rs 5 and Rs 25, and they can be purchased at any of the 81 philatelic bureaus across India.

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