Taking a major step by putting all 13,040 village panchayats on web, Punjab on Sunday claimed to become the first State in the country to have information of all villages at the click of a mouse.
The functioning of gram panchayats in Punjab has been strengthened through computerisation under e-panchayats scheme and PRIA-soft, a unique software of National e-gram panchayats programme, said the State Rural Development and Panchayats Minister Sikander Singh Maluka on Sunday.
He said that under an intensive programme, training was provided to all panchayat secretaries for the operational working of this software.
“An ambitious scheme to connect all gram panchayats (GPs) with national e-governance has launched successfully in all districts,” he said.
Maluka said that the State Government was committed to adopt ePRIs scheme on priority basis with a view to put this plan into practice. “Punjab has become an e-panchayat first state to put data of all its 13,040 village panchayats on its official website,” he said.
He said that websites of all Zila Parishads and Block Samitis has completed and started work on that of the state panchayat department website — www.pbrdp.gov.in.
Minister said that village panchayat websites has details of famous personalities, popular and historical places while the panchayat department website had contact numbers, educational qualifications of its members and related information.
Other information is available on a click include elected members of rural and urban local bodies, latest data of gram panchayats and mapped villages, distance of village from main cities and main roads, overall information about village, schools, colleges, hospitals, community centres and Centre and State-sponsored schemes going on in the villages, he said.