eIPO is a facility to purchase an Indian Postal Order electronically by paying a fee on-line. It is available through e-Post Office Portal i.e. https://www.epostoffice.gov.in. The web based s/w has been designed, developed and implemented by s/w development team of NIC –Dak Bhavan under the guidance of Dr. (Mrs.) Shefali S. Dash ,DG(NIC). e-IPO (Electronic Indian Postal Order ) was launched on 22nd March 2013 to facilitate Indian citizens abroad across the globe to purchase an e-IPO by paying the fee online to access the information under the RTI Act, 2005 from the Central Public Authorities . After completing a one-time registration on the portal, RTI applicants abroad can use their credit or debit cards to purchase an e-IPO. The site will generate a unique e-IPO number after each purchase, which the applicants can take a print out of and quote in their RTI application. It was then brought to the notice of the department that Indian citizens living abroad were facing difficulties in payment of fees for accessing information from Indian Missions/Posts abroad as the facility of e-IPO was not available to them. In order to facilitate obtaining information under RTI Act,2005 by the Indian Citizen living abroad from Indian Missions Posts under Ministry of External Affairs, the facility have been extended from 27th. September 2013 to cover 176 Indian Missions Posts across the globe. With this addition, e-IPO (Electronic Indian Post Order) facility will now cover 2,492 Public Authorities in India and abroad under Central Ministries, Departments, UTs and NCT Delhi. As of now more than 100 (hundred) Indian Missions across the globe have posted 'ePost Office Portal' link on their websites. On 13th, Feb 2014 this service got extended to Indian citizens living in India & was launched by Secretary (Posts), Department of Posts along with two other enhancements carried out by NIC Team.

NIC-DOP Team with Ms.P.Gopinath, Secretary (Posts), Dr. (Mrs.) Shefali S. Dash, DG (NIC) on the eve of Launch Function held at DOP-Dak Bhavan on13th. Feb 2014. Standing From Right to Left – Shri Vineet Kumar, Shri Ravi Kumar,Dr. Rakesh Gupta, Ms. Pooja Sethi, Ms. P.Gopinath, Dr. Shefali S. Dash, Shri Mukesh Kumar Aggarwal, Shri Sudidhi Das, Ms. Harsimran Kaur