Jharkhand has approached the Centre for setting up tele-medicine and tele-consultant centres at ISM, Dhanbad in the lines of IIT, Patna. Chief Minister Raghubar Das informed about this while meeting Union IT Secretary RS Sharma on Monday.
“The State Government is working towards ensuring role of IT for transparency and accountability in governance. IT is also beneficial in time management and monitoring of the developmental works. We have approached the Union Government for setting up the center at ISM, Dhanbad for the field of tele-medicine,” said the CM in the meeting.
The CM also said that the Government is working towards enveloping the State with Aadhaar number. “Seeding exercise for ration card holders is taking place which would help in rolling out DBT and eliminate the role of middlemen from the system. We have made provision for IT based payment for milk producers of the State and focus is also on skill development of the youths,” added the CM.
RS Sharma, who has served as Chief Secretary of the State before going on the central deputation, assured the CM of all the desired support and latest technical help from the Center. He at the same time also stressed on making the land records digitized that would lessen disputes coming related to this.
Development Commissioner RS Poddar, Mines Secretary SK Sathpathi and Principal Secretary to the CM Sunil Kumar Barnwal were present in the meeting.