TURA: The first ever e-district services for districts and sub-divisions of Garo Hills were launched at the DRDA Conference Hall, Tura in West Garo Hills on Saturday.
Praising the officials and staff associated with the project, DP Wahlang, principal secretary, information technology department, said the main objective of the e-services was to facilitate citizens in availing different services provided by the deputy commissioner’s office of the district in a transparent and citizen-friendly manner.
Wahlang said the project would be implemented on mission mode and initially six services would be included. The services are issuance of Scheduled Caste certificate, Scheduled Tribe certificate,permanent resident certificate for higher studies, residential certificate, income certificate and certificate for recruitment into armed, paramilitary or police forces. He said with the launch of the service, applicants could apply from any common service centre, kiosk, internet browsing centre, home and public facilitation centre (at the DC’s office) without any difficulty and relevant SMS would be sent to the applicant during processing till completion of certificate.
The principal secretary said 34,000 certificates have been issued so far in the state and the department has set a target of receiving 1 lakh applicants by March 31, 2018.
E Lyngwa, principal consultant, information technology department spoke in detail about the procedures followed to make the service available to the people of the state. Pravin Bakshi, deputy commissioner of West Garo Hills, , B Tiwari, special officer, IT department, Sabrella B Marak, additional deputy commissioner, West Garo Hills, Rezia Ch Sangma, EAC, West Garo Hills, district officials and officials and staff of IT department from all districts were present at the launch.
