Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal on Tuesday launched 485 schemes and services of 37 departments under the 'Digital Haryana' initiative.
He said through the medium of e-governance, people could be provided with good governance.
On 94th birth anniversary of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, 'Good Governance' programmes were organised in the state and the chief minister inaugurated 22 'Antyodya Saral Kendras' for all district headquarters from Karnal.
"With this, Haryana has become the first state in the country, where 4,000 Atal Seva Kendras in rural areas, 22 at district headquarters, 51 at sub-divisional level and 20 Antyodya Saral Kendras at Tehsil level, have been launched simultaneously at such a large scale," he said while speaking on the occasion.
All kinds of Antyodaya services, schemes meant for weaker sections of the society and target groups are available under one roof at Antyodya Saral Kendras.
Through Video conferencing, the Chief Minister directed the officers concerned to ensure that there is adequate space available for Saral Kendras and all the schemes and services are displayed on the board for the convenience of the public. The Chief Minister also inaugurated Antyodaya Helpline number 1800-2000-023 and also dialed the toll free from his mobile and enquired about requirement of documents for Ration Card.
Haryana Agriculture Minister O P Dhankar suggested that a SARAL App should be launched so that people could get all information about schemes on their smart phones at home.
The Chief Minister appreciated the suggestion of Dhankar about launch of Saral App on the pattern of Umang App of Central Government, to provide information about all schemes and soon steps would be taken in this direction.
He said that the aim of this project is to ensure that the citizen service delivery becomes effective, easy and corruption-free so that the citizen does not have to depend upon agents and middlemen to get benefits.
He said that on the pattern of CM Window, everyday services being given at Saral Kendras would be monitored at Headquarters in Chandigarh.
Responding to a question regarding possibility of setting up of a unit by Maruti Suzuki India Limited in Karnal, which is Khattar's home constituency, he said: "It depends on the Maruti company, from the state government's side the company had been offered two places in Gurgaon and one each in Samalkha, Faridabad and Karnal.