Haryana has been awarded with Skoch Smart Governance Award 2015 for its six schemes namely e-pension, Birth Registration, Finance Management System, e-Tourism, CM Window and e-Disha.
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar lal received this award from Union Minister for Urban Development Venkaiah Naidu in 41st Skoch Summit organised at Stien Auditorium at India Habitat Centre in New Delhi on Tuesday.
Speaking on the occasion, Manohar lal said that 22 e-services of Health and Revenue Department have been started in the State through the medium of Combined Service Centres and in the current financial year, 150 citizen services would be provided in electronic mode.
He said that 2500 Combined Service Centres would be opened in the State and presently 650 such Centres were already operational. The present Government has notified 163 services and the citizens of the State have the right to acquire them. A time limit has also been fixed to provide these services, he added.
The Chief Minister said that with a view to strengthen the infrastructure of the State, great emphasis is being laid on the extension of roads, transportation, metro trains and railway lines.
He added that GPS Systems are being installed in the buses of Haryana State Roadways and CCTV cameras are also being installed at the bus stands.
state Tourism bags Order of Merit Award-2015
Chandigarh: Haryana Tourism has bagged Skoch Order of Merit Award-2015 in the category of innovative use of Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) by State Government Public Sector Undertakings or cooperatives or federations or societies.
At the 41st Skoch Summit being held from September 22-23 at New Delhi, Sumita Misra, Haryana Principal Secretary Tourism said that the ‘e-tourism’ project of Haryana Tourism had been rated amongst ‘top 8 projects in India’ for 2015 by a jury of eminent experts after scanning a large number of nominations and over 300 presentations.