In a landmark achievement, Punjab on Wednesday completed online delivery of one million citizen services under e-District Project, including backend computerisation of 42 high volume citizen services in various field offices of the State.
This achievement was appreciated by Chief Secretary Sarvesh Kaushal in a review meeting of Department of Governance Reforms.
Under e-District project, more than 1,000 field offices have been equipped with computing hardware, networking, connectivity and a million odd service requests have already been processed using digital signatures under this project, said the government spokesperson. To improve the access speed of e-District software to the field offices, the current broadband connections will be replaced with high speed lease line connections in next 10 weeks.
“The necessary instructions in this regard were given to BSNl officials present in the meeting. Data entry or backend digitization of 20 lakh historical records related to birth or death certificates, agriculture licenses has already been completed. Further 10 lakhs records shall be digitized per month to complete the process as per original schedule,” added the spokesperson.
Chief Secretary also reviewed the simplification of citizen services’ application forms of 206 services under Right to Service Act, 2011. He constituted three teams to complete the simplification and re-engineering of application forms for the convenience of citizens in next 4 weeks.
He also directed the concerned officials to integrate the project with Aadhaar platform which will further reduce the documents requirement of various citizen services.
The agreement for 570 Sewa Kendras out of a total of 2147 Sewa Kendras has already been signed and the agreement for remaining Sewa Kendras shall be signed in next one week.