Himachal Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur here on Tuesday launched CM Dash Board, Direct Benefit Transfer of 25 services and Mobile App for Aanganwadis.
"All these apps would go a long way in providing effective, responsive and accountable administration to the people of the State," he said at the launch function, adding that all the Departments of the State Government would be directly linked with the CM Dash Board and the Chief Minister would have access to all the details regarding ongoing schemes, progress in its implementation and new initiatives taken by the department.
The Chief Minister said that it would ensure regular monitoring of ongoing schemes of various departments and their effective and time bound completion.
He said all departments would have to go for automation of their functioning and regularly update their ongoing projects. "In the present era of Information Technology, the State Government was committed to ensure optimum utilization of all Information Technology tools for good governance. Till date 53 projects and schemes of over 24 departments have been registered with the CM Dash board and soon most of the departments would get themselves registered with it," Thakur said.
The CM said Direct Benefit Transfer for additional 25 services would also benefit the beneficiaries as all the subsidy and Government assistance was directly being transferred in the bank accounts of the beneficiaries. He said that DBT was already being implemented for 31 services in the State and it would not only check bogus beneficiaries but also ensure transparent financial transaction.
Thakur said the Aaganwadi App would ensure Geo mapping of the Aanganwadi Centres in the State, ditigitization of data of the beneficiaries and linking the beneficiaries with AADHAR. He also transferred honorarium of Ananagbari workers for the month directly into their bank account by click of a button. He also released a 100 day programme (Report Card) of the Information Technology department.
Agriculture, Information Technology and Tribal development Minister, Ram Lal Markanda said that the State Government had made it clear that it would ensure maximum utilization of Information Technology for good governance and the services launched today was a step in this direction.
He said the Union Government has ensured full support to provide IT related and Wi-Fi facilities to all the panchayats of the State by end of the current year.