A good move initiated by the Governor’s administration, the first of its kind in a comprehensive way in the State but equally much desired, Governor Satya Pal Malik recently launched as many as 19 services of seven departments on the State Services Delivery Gateway. With this launch, the total number of services that will now be available on the State Services Delivery Gateway has increased to 26.
The decision can extend benefits to more than seven lac beneficiaries annually. Of course, the collaboration has been solicited from CDAC Mumbai. At the same time, the State IT Department‘s JaKeGA wing will be the main agency and hopefully ultimately handle it even independently as far as the progress of the service is concerned, as far as continuity and optimal success are concerned. When most of us from the State find people in other States in the country, with the click of a button, availing of many such services, we are led to believe that we are lagging in reaping the benefits of the Information Technology revolution as most of the time and focus of the State Administration is otherwise frittered away on resolving the non-productive and peculiar type of prevailing scenario in a few parts of the State. Now that at least 26 services have been brought under online services, we can safely feel on track to attain the maximum facilities and comforts IT brings. Not only shall transparency be doubly ensured, but time-consuming, avoidable human intervention will also be ruled out. While we appreciate the move, we urge the authorities to give the scheme a good measure of publicity to inform prospective beneficiaries about it in detail.
