About 2,500 Common Service Centres (CSCs) will be established across Haryana in a phased manner to enable delivery of citizen services to the people in electronic mode. And, as many as 1,600 CSCs would be established in the rural areas and 900 in urban areas.
An official spokesman said that the first phase of the rollout of these centres would involve the establishment of 500 CSCs by March 2014 and remaining in the progressive manner. These CSCs would serve as the main channels for delivery of citizen services to the citizens from various Departments and Agencies of the government.
He said these CSCs would be located conveniently at the village-level and would be opened by village level entrepreneurs who would be appointed through NIC for operating these centres.
“Initially, Birth and Death registration Certificates, Income Certificate, House tax, Marriage Certificate, payment of electricity bills and other such services are likely to be started at these CSCs. Primarily, these Centres would be started in the villages having population of more than 10,000,” he added.
The spokesman said that as per the scheme of Information Technology Department initially, maximum 82 such Centres would be opened in district Bhiwani followed by 74 in Hisar, 72 in Karnal, 68 in Sonipat, 64 each in Jind and Ambala, 58 in Mohindergarh, 52 in Mewat, 54 each in Faridabad and Gurgaon, 48 in Jhajjar, 57 in Rewari, 76 in Yamunanagar, 28 in Panchkula, 45 in Fatehabad, 40 in Rohtak, 39 in Panipat, 58 in Sirsa and 19 in Palwal.
He said that with the setting up of these centres, the people residing in rural areas would not be required to visit cities and towns for getting prepared any type of certificate which they would get in their villages.
In Sirsa district, such Centres would be established in Rajiv Gandhi Seva Kendra as in Sirsa district maximum number of Rajiv Gandhi Seva Kendra have been set up in the villages. He said that by the year 2014, such centres would be set up in half a dozen villages of Sirsa district.
The spokesman added that Rajiv Gandhi Seva Kendra were being set up in more than 100 villages of the district out of which the work to construct such Centres in 75 villages had been completed. Apart from this, e-library had been set up in 50 villages which were operating smoothly.
After opening of Common Service Centres in the building of Rajiv Gandhi Gyan Kendras, the villagers would get more facilities and these building would be utilised in public interest, he further added.