Srinagar, (UNI) The Union Territory administration in Jammu and Kashmir will bring more than 200 government services of various departments online on a single platform with provision for Single Sign-On (SSO) registration, which will assist the public to avail multiple government services by using their unique digital IDs by May, 2022.
Chief Secretary Arun Kumar Mehta on Thursday chaired a meeting to launch Digital JK, “Digital Districts and Digital Panchayats” campaign to bring in various e-governance initiatives on a single platform towards promoting ease of living in Jammu and Kashmir.
He asked the IT consultants to work towards evolving an integrated “Digital J&K, Digital Districts and Digital Panchayats” model in Mission mode by creating a unified platform to provide all government services by May, 2022.
Mehta entrusted the concerned Departments to undertake major procedure simplifications across departments by doing away with unnecessary compliance burden and use of technological interventions to further streamline the service delivery.
All the services will be delivered through State Data Centre (SDC) to ensure coherence and seamless integration.
He further directed that the services may be delivered in three languages – English, Hindi and Urdu, with Voice-to-Text conversion and Document Extraction facilities.
The Services will be end-to-end digitised and documents will be issued and delivered to the applicant online via ‘Digi Locker,’ without any human interference. It will also ensure that all the services are available on ‘UMANG’ platform.
All these efforts will improve the service delivery system and enhance system efficiencies, besides reducing unnecessary footfall in offices.
The IT Department was asked to start this programme with a campaign titled ‘Your Mobile, Our Office’ and promote e-service literacy among the beneficiaries.
Among others, the Administrative Secretaries of departments of Health & Medical Education, School Education, Revenue, Rural Development, Food, Civil Supplies & Consumer Affairs, and Information Technology were present in the meeting.
