State has 803 common service centres promoting Digital India
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, June 29 2019:
Under Digital India, the flagship programme of the Government of India, the Department of Information Technology, Government of Manipur has been implementing various infrastructure based projects such as Common Service Centres (CSCs), State Wide Area Network (SWAN), State Data Centre (SDC) and e-District.
As the celebration of Digital India Anniversary falls on Monday, officials said that there are 803 Common Service Centres (CSCs) which are providing services like Aadhaar Enrolment & updation, digital literacy, digital life certificate (Jeevan Pramaan), Aadhaar enabled payment system in support of digital cashless transaction in the valley as well as hill districts of the State.
There are 145 CSCs in Imphal West, 141 in Imphal East, 110 in Bishnupur, 188 in Thoubal, 23 in Chandel, 50 in Senapati, 65 in Churachandpur, 46 in Ukhrul and 35 in Tamenglong district.
The e-District Mission Mode Project is successfully offering 35 online services like OBC/ST/SC/Permanent Residential/Income Certificate/Registration in Employment Exchange/Incentive State Sports Award/Registration in RCC Programme/ Registration in School Games Federation/Registration of Children with Special Need etc at doorsteps of citizen across all 16 districts eliminating the need to physically visit the Government offices concerned.
In 2018, the online transaction count under the e-District MMP reached 1,05,705 and from January 1, 2019 to June 26 the count is at 69,388, said the officials.
Citizens can access the online e-District services through http://www.eservicesmanipur.gov.in.
In the financial year 2018-19, the Manipur State Data Centre which is hosting all the Government's critical data, applications and websites has been upgraded to cloud platform, the officials said while informing that the Department of IT, Manipur is planning to implement new projects under UMANG, DigiLocker and Openforge etc.
UMANG (Unified Mobile Application for New-age Governance), developed by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and National e-Governance Division, is a multi-channel multi-platform for availing Government services.
DigiLocker is a flagship initiative which provides an account in cloud to every Indian citizen to access authentic documents/certificates such as driving license, vehicle registration, academic mark list in digital format from the original issuers of these certificates.
It now has 23.97 million registered users and has issued 3.52 billion documents.
Openforge is Government of India's platform for open collaborative development of e-Governance applications.
It promotes the use of open source software and sharing and reuse of e-Governance
related source code.