Giving Digital Haryana a decisive push and lending greater meaning to good Governance, Chief Minister, Manohar lal, on Monday launched six more e-services bringing 100 citizen-centric services pertaining to 12 departments on a single platform.
This platform will play host to 380 services pertaining to 30 departments through digital medium by April 14, next year.
The Government has also provided as many as 2,500 tablets to patwaris across the state to enable them to digitally verify certificates.
The Chief Minister launched Swachhata Map Application (App.) for 35 cities. It would be initiated in 80 cities of the state by January 26, next year Urban local Bodies Minister, Kavita Jain, was also present at the launch ceremony organised here to mark the Good Governance Day.
Manohar lal dedicated Saral Portal under e-Governance, to the people of the state. SARAl (Simple, All inclusive, Real Time, Action Oriented, long lasting) is a service delivery platform where citizens can now track and avail themselves of more than 100 services on a single platform.
The launch would make it easy for the citizens to discover the services they are eligible for. With 2,500 patwaris getting tablets, this is for the first time in the state that ground level work would be done electronically.
The Chief Minister said Swachhata Map App. would be linked with Swachhata App of Government of India with additional services. The Chief Minister directed the officers to initiate the process of linking villages with this App to facilitate them to provide information about cleanliness in their area.
Manohar lal also launched Deputy Commissioners (DCs) e-Dashboard (Darpan) which would not only offer analytical view of the ongoing schemes throughout the country but also provide unique survey of the national level schemes. Under this Dashboard, 11 services of the state government and seven of the Central Government are being provided, he added.
For hotel industry, a digital register has been launched for the first time for visitors in the state. Under this, data of actual time visitors would be shared with the Police Department and manual verification would no longer be required. With the help of the state government, this App has been developed by Oyo Company.
A special feature of this App is that the data of hotels falling in jurisdiction of police station concerned would be seen by the in charge of police station by logging in ID and maintaining privacy of the people.
At present, data of 400 hotels in the state would be shared and 303 police stations have been linked. Five states are also planning to initiate digital register on the pattern of Haryana and later, it would be launched in Malaysia, he added.
The Chief Minister also launched NOC application of the Forest Department. This application has been developed with the help of ISRO and C-DAC, and has been integrated with Geographic Information System (GIS) which would grant auto approval for Forest NOC, approval of forest clarification to business entities or companies based on forest boundaries.
“We are launching a pilot in Hisar and Bhiwani to give auto approval to any area which is more than 1.5 kms away from forest area”, Manohar lal added.
A Mobile Video Conference Platform was also launched where the Chief Minister was presented with a tablet by the Principal Secretary, Electronics and Information Technology Department, Mr Devendra Singh. On this platform, the Chief Minister or any other officer could get connected with 30 officers through video-conference, anywhere and anytime.
He also initiated ultramodern infrastructure in five e-Disha Kendras of the state through digital medium. These e-Disha Kendras are; Gharaunda, Karnal, Gohana, Kurukshetra and Radaur. “We have to make good governance best governance to provide people with all facilities at their doorsteps,” the Chief Minister said
The State Government as initiated e-Initiative to end corruption. This would not only save time and money, but would also provide instant services. The State Government aims to provide all 380 services to the people at their doorsteps.
era is digital era and the gap between people and the State Government could only be reduced through digital initiatives. This would increase faith of people on government”, Manohar lal added.
“Today is a special day and on the occasion of the birthday of the former Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, we are celebrating December 25 as Good Governance Day”, the Chief Minister said and prayed for the long life of Vajpayee.
“Good Governance Day is being celebrated in Haryana for the last four years. Today is the 351st Prakash Parv of 10th Guru of Sikhs, Shri Guru Gobind Singh Ji, and this Parv is being concluded at Patna-Sahib. Two trains carrying 3,500 pilgrims were flagged off from Haryana for Patna–Sahib to enable people to participate in the programme. On the occasion of Merry Christmas today, I extend my best wishes to all people of the state”, he added.
Those present included Chief Secretary, D.S. Dhesi, Additional Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, Rakesh Gupta, Additional Chief Secretary, Medical Education and Research Department, Dhanpat Singh, Principal Secretary, Electronics and Information Technology Department, Devender Singh and Director General, Vijayendra Kumar, Director General, New and Renewable Energy Department, Neerja Sekhar and Director General, Urban local Bodies Department, Nitin Yadav, besides other officials