How the pin code of a place decided in india Interesting !

How the pin code of a place decided in India Interesting!

Pin stands for postal index number

It is the post office numbering code system used by Indian post. first introducing in India on August 15,1972by Shriram Bhikaji Velankar, an additional secretary in the Union Ministry of Communications.the pin has 6 digits each digit denotes something. the first digit reflects the region.india has 9 pin regions

Northen region-1,2

Western region-3,4

Southern region-5,6

Eastern region-7,8

Army postal service-9

The second digit indicates the sub region

The first two digits identify a particular circle                    example-754032

The third digit indicates the sorting district within the region

The last 3 digits designate the specific post office within the district, so 032 is the code for fulapada post office in Cuttack district in Odisha

State wise pin code

Delhi-11

Haryana 12 & 13

Punjab 14 & 16

Himachal Pradesh 17

Jammu & Kashmir 18 to 19

Uttar Pradesh & Uttarakhand 20 to 28

Rajasthan 30 to 34

Gujarat 36 to 39

Maharashtra 40 to 44

Madhya Pradesh & Chattisgarh-45 to 49

Andhra Pradesh & Telangana -50 to 53

Karnataka 56 to 59

Tamil Nadu -60 to 64

Kerala 67 to 69

West Bengal  70 to 74

Odisha 75 to 77

Assam 78

Bihar and Jharkhand 80 to 85

Army postal service(aps) 90 to 99

Arunachal Pradesh 79

Manipur 79

Meghalaya 79

Mizoram 79

Nagaland 79

Sikkim 79

Tripura 79