Union Minister claims J&Okay tops all UTs in e-governance service supply

By Express News Service

NEW DELHI: Jammu & Kashmir has topped all Union Territories e-governance providers supply, enabling it to avoid wasting round Rs 200 crore yearly that was incurred in carrying bodily information in the course of the annual durbar transfer between the 2 capital cities of Jammu and Srinagar.

Declaring this right here right now, whereas releasing the National e-Governance Service Delivery Assessment report, ready on the initiative of Department of Administrative Reforms, Minister of State for PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Jitendra Singh mentioned J&Okay achieved the place with an total compliance of almost 90 p.c.

Addressing a nationwide workshop on e-office and launch of National e-Governance Service Delivery Assessment (NeSDA 202), Singh mentioned that J&Okay was assessed for the primary time in NeSDA 2021 and scored the best amongst all UTs for six sectors.

He mentioned that for the reason that 2019 Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act got here into pressure, it’s the first UT to provide you with a great governance index for 20 districts. Besides, the operationalisation of two secretariats in J&Okay was potential due to e-office, which has ended the annual darbar that concerned carrying over 300 truckloads of information between Srinagar and Jammu.

This additionally saved Rs 200 crore each year and led to uninterrupted work tradition throughout the complete UT with none official break of six weeks for organisation of information in Jammu and Srinagar, respectively.