e-Panchayat is the need of the hour for overall development of the State. The department officers should speed up their work for providing various certificates like birth, death, old age pension, handicapped pension, widow pension, employment registration, caste, domicile, income, character and others through electronic mode in the State, said Uttarakhand Information and Technology Minister Dinesh Aggarwal while reviewing departmental projects with senior officers on Tuesday.
The minister reviewed e-district projects and said that e-district project which is operational in Pauri district as a pilot project will be launched in all the districts of the state soon. He said that he would review e-district project in Pauri district with district magistrate concerned on December 17.
The Minister also reviewed under construction of information and technology building at IT Park, Sahastradhara and directed project manager of executing agency, Uttar Pradesh Rajya Nirman Nigam to maintain quality of work in this project. At an estimated cost of Rs 11.98 crore, data centre will be established in the IT building so that residents could be provided e-services through electronic mode.
It should be mentioned here that executing agency, UPRNN has been given Rs five crore for the construction of building for data centre. The department officers were directed that this centre should be linked with video conferencing network so that various state ministers could conduct review meeting with department officials from time to time.
He directed the officers to speed up work related to establishment of computer training resource centre in Dehradun which will be established at Doon University or Uttarakhand Technical University. the department officers should use IT related services for disaster management so that information related to disaster could be provided to the citizen at the time of emergency. The Minister directed the officers to lay stress on connecting maximum people with IT related services. On the occasion, IT additional secretary Ravinath Raman informed the minister about IT related projects operational in the State.