E-District Project To Be Rolled Out In Entire Punjab By October 30- Sukhbir

Rs 53.34 Crore Sanctioned

5 Dariya News

Chandigarh 29-May-2013

The Punjab Government has all set to roll out the E-District Project in the entire state by October 30 this year at the cost of Rs 53.34 crore, making the dream of putting all offices online a reality. 

Reviewing the functioning of Governance Reforms department here today, Mr. Sukhbir Singh Badal, Deputy Chief Minister Punjab expressed satisfaction over the fact that a pilot project has already been rolled out in the SBS Nagar and Kapurthala districts, which has registered a great success in hassle free service delivery in both districts. It was informed in the meeting that as per the data released from National Programme Management Unit of E-District project by Government of India, Punjab has the highest number of services which has gone live in the pilot phase.  He said that keeping in view the success of this project in pilot phase, the process has already been started to spread it across the state.

Sanctioning Rs 53.34 crore for the completion of the project, Mr. Badal said that IT Company WIPRO that has been selected as State Project Management Unit (SPMU) to look after the implementation of this project should ensure its timely completion. He said that under the project total 47 services to go live till by October 30 this year in all the districts, facilitating people to register online applications, complaints by sitting at home. They would also be able to check the status of their application online on day to day basis. 

It was informed in the meeting that to ensure the proper implementation of this project, pisional level workshops for sensitizing the pisional Commissioners and Deputy Commissioners were conducted from April 8 to 10 in Jalandhar, Bathinda and Patiala. Besides that Sub pisional and Block Level Officers would also be given training for this project in the month of July.