Budgetary demands of the Transport, Science and Information Technology, Public Service Management, Public Grievances Redressal departments were cleared by the state assembly here on Thursday after reply of department’s Minister Bhupendra Singh over discussions on them.
Singh told the house that public transport would be made more convenient, secured and pollution free and internet facility up to Panchayat level would be provided by 2018. “Tax has been reduced in the passenger buses, earlier there was tax of Rs 240 per seat that has been reduced to Rs 180 per seat. Due to this good buses have started running for the convenience of the people of state. 24 Volvo buses are run daily only on Indore – Bhopal route. In the state a total of 46 Volvo and 650 Ac and deluxe buses are run on different routes of the state,” Singh informed the house.
Singh further said that under the MP Public Service Guarantee Act 2010 a total of 160 services of 23 departments have been listed. MP is the first state where Public Service Guarantee Act has been implemented. The act has been folwoed by other states of the country. Now the extension of the Public Service Guarantee Act would be done up to Tehsil level. Till now of the total 3.49 crore applications received under the act in the state over 3.65 crore have been redressed, he added.
He said that in the field of IT MP is one of the select states of the country. Besides establishment of IT Park in the state initiatives have been taken for establishing electronic manufacturing cluster in the state. International web policy has been made in the state and initiative shave been taken to provide internet facilities up to Panchayat level by the year 2018, he added.