In a bid to ensure faster and hassle-free delivery mechanism of citizen-centric services, the Haryana Government has prepared Digital Haryana Roadmap 2017-19.
“Not just delivery of services, but also the working of offices would undergo a metamorphosis under the Digital Haryana Roadmap designed to convert governance into ‘Saral Shashan’ which has been further defined as "simple, all-inclusive, real-time, action-oriented and long lasting governance," said the Chief Minister Manohar lal, while presiding over a meeting of Digital Haryana Cell here.
Under the roadmap, all departments where Information Technology-related projects are being implemented, would be connected and coordination would be established among them for proper monitoring of projects and policies. Emphasis would be laid on curbing corruption and promoting digital literacy.
Service delivery to citizens would include immunisation updates through voice bursts, online calls with doctors, direct scholarship debit to bank accounts, real-time attendance updates to parents through SMS, information on local voter registration via SMS, new service updates through Atal Seva Kendras, auto authentication for marriage registration and online registration of new apartments.
The Chief Minister said that the working of government offices would be transformed to facilitate, among other things, daily feedback on school enrollment and bulk SMSs to parents of children to improve attendance in schools, besides promoting paperless governance.
The roadmap also has the way how to surmount the present barriers to achieving the avowed objective of ‘Saral Shashan’. Playing the enablers for various IT initiatives facilitating transformation across the state will be Atal Seva Kendras, online mobiles, and government offices.
The Digital Haryana Roadmap 2017-19 is reaffirmation of the State Government’s resolute resolve to serve the people well and make life easy and hassle-free by cutting down interface between the people and the administration through increased use of IT tools, said Manohar lal.
During the meeting, it was informed that 185 IT projects are being implemented or are under process in the state, of which ten per cent are being implemented by the Central Government, 20 per cent projects have budget provision of more than Rs one crore, 50 per cent projects were launched in the last two years, and 70 per cent are being implemented through Government agencies.
Apart from this, five patents, ten research papers and a book on the achievements of Digital Haryana would be published to establish Haryana as a leading digital state. Symposiums would also be organised and awards would be instituted to encourage innovations.