To provide more than 225 citizen-centric services in hassle-free manner related to various departments, the Punjab Government will set up 2,600 unified civil services centres in all villages and 137 towns in the State by May 2015.
Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal, while addressing a gathering in Jalalabad in Ferozepur district on Thursday, said that the services would be provided so that people can get their work, related to various departments, done in a hassle-free manner.
He said that for services like BPl (below poverty line) cards, driving licences, birth and death certificates, police verification, attestation of documents and others, the Punjab cabinet recently approved the setting up of 1,750 rural and 424 urban cyber service centres under the “minimum Government, maximum governance” plan.
“If we have to wipe out corruption, the contact between common man and public dealing government offices will have to be eliminated and such service centres are a big step to achieve this target,” he said.
He said that the services will be provided in a time-bound manner to common people.
Maintaining that SAD-BJP is fully geared up for upcoming local bodies elections, he said that the coalition would register massive victory on the basis of its performance.
Sukhbir, replying on the proposed agitation by left parties, said that after losing ground at national and State level, they have even eliminated from political scene of West Bengal and other states as well. “Congress and leftists are spent forces which have lost the faith of masses due to their directionless policies,” he said.
Sukhbir also assured that the nominations of all pending market committees chairmen in the State would be announced within a month.