Punjab inks MoU with Nandan Nilekani’s e-Gov to provide online services

Chandigarh, February 28: In a bid to provide citizen-centric service to the people of Punjab in both transparent and smooth manner, the state government has signed a MoU with e-Governance Foundation (e-Gov) of Nandan Nilekani.

 

According to the MoU, a total of 67 services would be provided online within a span of 1 year under 12 modules namely Property Tax, Water & Sewerage Management, Complaints and Grievance, Licensing, Fire Service, Verification, Birth and Death, ULB web portal, Mobile App, State and ULB Dashboards, Payroll and Financial Accounting.

On this occasion, Local Government Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu said, "The Punjab Government is fully committed to fulfill promises of delivering the citizen-centric services to the people of the state in a transparent and smooth manner so as to ensure that they don't have to make rounds of government offices to avail the same."

Listing other path-breaking measures undertaken by the department, Minister Sidhu further revealed that the department has decided with the assistance of the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) to go in for the beautification as well as cleaning of 7 km long Tungdhab Nallah (Amritsar) a project worth Rs. 5 crore and Jamalpur STP along with Budhha Nallah in Ludhiana in the initial phase and after getting successful results, the initiative would be replicated throughout the state.

He said that the work on cleaning and beautification of Tungdhab Nallah (Amritsar) would begin before March 16. Divulging more, the minister said that the project worth Rs. 31 crore with regard to budhha nallah would first be presented to the cabinet for necessary clearance. He batted for adopting the model already adopted and executed with aplomb by noted environmentalist Sant Baba Balbir Singh Seechewal in this regard.

Minister Sidhu also elaborated that the Amritsar dump which has been in existence since the past 2 decades would be cleaned up during the course of next 3 years and a scientific study spanning 2 months would be undertaken in this connection. Sounding a warning note to those indulging in environmental pollution, the Local Government Minister said that those establishments/concerns excreting the untreated water and other waste would be strictly dealt with in accordance with the law.