Ramgarh and Hazaribagh become first two districts having e-nagrik service launched for the first time in the State. Chief Minister Raghubar Das on Tuesday, during the online inauguration of e-nagrik service in Ranchi, said that the service will enable the people to get benefits of government schemes on time.
The CM, on the occasion, handed over online certificates to Mithilesh Kumar Ravidas, Premchand Kumar Ravidas of Gola block in Ramgarh and Sanjay Kumar Mehta, Md. Imran of Ichak block of Hazaribagh. The CM also stressed on linking other districts to the e-nagrik service soon.
Holding a meeting with the officials, the CM said that there is a need to expand and modernise the field of Information Technology. "It will now be easier to get certificates and other documents at the block level trough e-nagrik services enabling the people to fill up their forms online and will also be able to receive them online without going to the district headquarters," said the CM. It will also help people of the remote areas to get away from any unwanted harassment, he added.
Officials of Information and Technology department also presented a presentation related to e-district where Principal Secretary NN Sinha said that the project was on mission mode where e-nagrik service has been started in the identified districts as a pilot project. According to Sinha, as many as 30 services come under the e-nagrik service, of which five services have been linked through it while action will soon be taken regarding the other services.
"Presently, income certificate, birth certificate, death certificate, etc are being issued through e-nagrik service while the certificates issued earlier are also being digitised so they could also be obtained easily," said Sinha.
Jharkhand, selected as one of the pilot States for the implementation of the pilot e-district project preferred Ranchi as the pilot district for implementation of the same. This project was sanctioned by the Government of India for an amount of Rs.319.69 lakh. The new system was to enable the people in rural areas to have electronically signed birth, death, income, residential and caste certificates at common service centres (CSC) located at Panchayat Bhawans and other locations known as 'Pragya Kendras'.
The project is being implemented by the Jharkhand Agency for Promotion of Information Technology (JAPIT) in consultation with PricewaterhouseCoopers. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) was entrusted to develop the software for electronic delivery services.
Chief Secretary Rajiv Gauba, Principal Secretary to CM Sanjay Kumar, Principal Secretary (Finance) Rajbala Verma, Principal Secretary of Personnel and Administrative Reforms SK Satpathy, along with the other senior officials were present during the function.