Government has said that it aims to have a post office minimum in a 3-kilometre area. While replying to supplementaries in Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for Communication, Chandrashekhar Pemmasani said, in the last 10 years more than 10 thousand 500 new post offices were created out of which 90 per cent are located in rural areas. He added that, out of new post offices, more than five thousand are located in Left Wing Extremism affected areas. Mr Pemmasani also clarified that none of the employees of the postal department have downsized in the last five years. He informed that currently around four lakh 50 thousand employees are working in more than one lakh 65 thousand post offices all over the country.