Department of Posts – Gujarat Circle (India Post, Gujarat Circle)
Gujarat Circle is one of the Department of Posts' 23 postal circles and is headed by a Chief Postmaster General at Ahmedabad. It covers Gujarat and also administers Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu. Advanced Postal Technology 2.0 went live across all 8,884 post offices in the Circle on 22 July 2025.
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How we verify →Gujarat Circle is one of the Department of Posts' 23 postal circles and is headed by a Chief Postmaster General at Ahmedabad. It covers Gujarat and also administers Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu. Advanced Postal Technology 2.0 went live across all 8,884 post offices in the Circle on 22 July 2025.
What happened
India Post states that the Department of Posts comes under the Ministry of Communications, divides the country into 23 postal circles and places each circle under a Chief Postmaster General.
India Post states that Gujarat Circle also administers the Union Territories of Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
PIB recorded that the Chief Postmaster General of Gujarat Circle assumed charge at Ahmedabad on 25 October 2023.
Bombay Samachar reports that APT 2.0 went live throughout Gujarat Circle on 22 July 2025, covering all 8,884 post offices and adding UPI or QR payments, real-time SMS tracking, OTP-secured delivery and GPS-enabled postmen.
The report says more than 26,000 postal staff were trained, the CEPT Mysuru platform replaced SAP and DARPAN 2.0, and a special cover was released.
What we could not confirm
Circle revenue/profit and sanctioned staff strength are not published as a commercial P&L and could not be confirmed from an official page, so financials and employees are null. HQ street address (Khanpur, Ahmedabad) comes from non-official directories, not an opened official page.