JOIN USIn a move that would establish Andhra Pradesh as a model state in e-governance, it will unveil an online platform to offer 600 different citizen services.
The platform, called e-Pragati, will include departments like revenue, land and municipal administration, health, social welfare and education.
The state partnered with software major Wipro to develop the platform, which it plans to implement from next month in a phased manner in the new capital region of Amaravati.
The project would make AP a model state in Digital India initiative and transform the way government services are delivered to citizens, a release here said.
Citizens would find Certificate-Less Government System (CLGS), tele-health, e-education, e-Mandi, Citizen Inbox, Digital Literacy, e-SHG (Self-Help Group), Smart City and Smart Grid among the services delivered through e-Pragati.
“The phase 1 of the project will be over in October with 72 sub-projects.” While the entire project will be completed by 2017,” state Information Technology advisor J Satyanarayana said.
He said the platform would use analytics to predict performance of various sectors, citizen health profiles, school dropout rates and other indicators.
Besides being a ‘one-stop-shop’ for all details on citizens that could be found in “people’s hub” section, e-Pragati will also have a “land hub”.
“All of them will be integrated with the government database and will be used in schemes to avoid data duplication,” Satyanarayana said.
Providing a 360 degree view of every sector to both the government and the citizen, e-Pragati will not only offer common applications like Mee Seva, CM Dashboard or Mee-Bhoomi, but would also deliver both department-centric and cross-cutting applications.
“It is designed to make the government citizen-centric,” the IT advisor said. “The best part of the platform is digitisation of citizen data spanning age-groups and categories.”
The platform will have agriculture, horticulture, fisheries, livestock and related departments under primary sector, while farmers looking for information on crops, land, seeds, insurance and marketing, would find it in e-Mandi section.
The government is working to collect all core data through smart pulse survey by pressing 50,000 field workers into service.
While gathering data on all citizens, it would track location of the field workers through GPS. The government will also set up a 24-hour control room for the project.