There are 1,54,882 Post Offices in India. This was revealed by Shri. Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister for Communicaions & IT in reply to a question raised in the Parliament. Out of these, 1,39,182 are in the rural areas and 15,700 in urban. It was also stated that during the period of 2011-14, 150 post offices were closed. It is proposed to open 160 post offices in 2014-15.