Chhattisgarh Government is preparing to take the next big leap in e-Governance through its proposed launch of 'e-District 2.0' application which aims at electronic delivery of all public services at district and sub district levels, progressively while maintaining the continuity of existing e-District application, officials informed.
Like e-District, ‘e-District 2.0’ aims at electronic delivery of all public services at district / sub district level, progressively.
Currently, a total of 126 services are available from e-District Portal. Later on, new services could be added depending on the requirements and the felt needs, they stated.
The Application for ‘e-District 2.0’ will be the most critical component.
The ‘e-District 2.0’ would integrate with the Central Government and Chhattisgarh Government’s ‘e-Governance’ Application. The ‘e-District 2.0’ would also integrate with Jansamvad for addressing grievances / concerns of citizens besides integrating with Digi-Locker and for integration of already issued certificates
The existing e-District application would be enhanced for state wide rollout of ‘e-District 2.0’ project.
The Integrated Service Delivery Framework released by DeitY would be leveraged for developing the application architecture for the State.
The Central Government has approved the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) in pursuance of its policy of introducing e-Governance on a massive scale.
The NeGP vision aims to “Make all Government Services accessible to the citizens in his or her locality, through common service delivery outlets and ensure efficiency, transparency and reliability of such services at affordable costs to realize the basic needs of the citizens”.
To realize this vision, 27 Central, State and Integrated Mission Mode Project (MMPs) along with 8 support components have been identified and approved, to enable and facilitate rapid introduction of e-Governance in the country, with focus on electronic service delivery.
The ‘e-District’ is one of the MMPs identified under NeGP, which is aimed at strengthening the District administration to provide Government services, in a cohesive manner leveraging ICT, to the citizens.
The project aims to target certain high volume services and undertake ‘Back end computerization’ to e-enable the delivery of these services through Common Service Centres (CSCs)/Lok Sewa Kendra (LSKs), in a sustainable manner.
The Chhattisgarh e-District project is an important enhancement of the State’s e-Governance implementation programme, in which majority of the G2C services are delivered by the district administration leveraging Information, Communication and Technology. The Government of Chhattisgarh believes that the automation of workflow and internal processes of different departments would considerably reduce the troubles of the citizens in their interface with the government machinery in their day to day life, officials stated.