India's first state-of-the-art 3D-printed post office opens in B'luru

NT Correspondent

Bengaluru: India's first 3D-printed post office built with a robotic printer using 3D printing technology that deposits concrete layer-by-layer in accordance with computerised 3D model drawing input was inaugurated in the city on Friday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi lauded the effort in a tweet saying that it represents the spirit of a self-reliant India.

In a post on X (formerly Twitter), the Prime Minister said: "Every Indian would be proud to see India's first 3D printed Post Office at Cambridge Layout, Bengaluru. A testament to our nation's innovation and progress, it also embodies the spirit of a self-reliant India."

Officials said the 3D-printed post office with a built-up area of 1,021 square feet involved a process requiring a delicate balance of concrete properties, including flowability, quick hardening for load-bearing capacity and sufficient strength to ensure successful printing.

Inaugurating the brand new post office at the residential Cambridge Layout here, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, who holds the Railways, Communications, Electronics and IT portfolios, said the building demonstrated "the spirit of development, the spirit of developing our own technology, the spirit of doing something which was considered impossible in the earlier times."