Standing for hours in long queues for paying your bills or for availing various services in government offices will be a thing of the past as the Department of e-Governance is planning to shortly start mobile collection centres, where you can pay your bills and avail services of the various government departments.
The mobile collection centres, which will offer all one stop services that are currently offered by ‘BangaloreOne’ and ‘Nemmadi,’ is currently being tested by the department and will be shortly introduced on experimental basis.
Speaking to reporters on Thursday, e-Governance Secretary Rajeev Chawla said a design of a mobile van, which will double up as a collection point centre, is ready and will be tested shortly.
“A design is ready along with application and network points. The mobile vans will be fitted with VSAT and GPS, which can be used as a mobile ATM or collection point,” he said.
Mr Chawla said such mobile collection centres and even hand-held collection devices will be extremely helpful in rural areas.
“This will help in bridging the digital divide between the rural and urban people. The mobile centres will be helpful as at present we have only about 800 Nemmadi centres for a total of 20,000 villages in the state,” he said.
The department of e-governance will shortly be opening one-stop 24/7 centres like the BangaloreOne in the tire-II cities and the first one will be set up in Hubli-Dharwad with five centres by July end, which will be followed Belgaum, Gulbarga, Mangalore and Mysore.
He added that discussions were on with the Income Tax and Commercial Tax departments for collecting taxes.
Shortly, ticket reservations for Inox Multiplex, KSRTC and Tirumala Tirupati package trips would be extended to BangaloreOne centres, he added.
20 new centres
The department will be opening 20 mini new BangaloreOne centres in all the existing BDA Complexes and one each at MS Building, National Games Village and Indiranagar, within a month. At present, there are 16 centres and 6 lakh customers visit the centres every month.
