lok Seva Kendras are proving to be effective in tribal dominated area Badwani. As many as 7.40 lakh persons availed benefit of prescribed services through 9 lok Seva Kendras established in the district under the Public Service Guarantee Act. This statistics holds a significant importance among the population of about 14 lakh of the district. Besides, this also proves that every second citizen of the district has availed benefit in the district.
Under the Act, single lok Seva Kendra was opened at District Headquarters on September 25. At the later stage, lok Seva Kendras at 6 blocks of the district on January 26, 2013 and 2 centers at tehsil level were opened on April 20, 2016.
Benefit was availed by the applicants within the stipulated time by Badwani center to 1.27 lakh applicants and to 65,708 applicants by Pati center. Similarly, 55 thousand 22 applicants were benefitted by Niwali, 1.18 lakh by Rajpur, 1.08 lakh by Theekri, 97,758 by Pansemal, 1.51 lakh by Sendhwa, 8,202 by Anjad and 8,328 by Varla Center.
On the basis of services, 1.35 lakh services under the services of revenue department, 4.82 lakh services under the general administration department, 1,675 services under the energy department, 2,226 services under the labour department, 4,013 services under the urban development and housing department, 26,620 services under the panchayat and rural development department, One thousand 947 services under the planning department, 3,986 services under the social justice department, 9,030 services under the food department and 6 thousand 228 services under the public health and engineering department were provided to the applicants by these 9 centers till date.