The country authorities’ “Digital Haryana” plan now appears to be heading in the right direction regardless of teething problems and competition from middlemen. Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar’s dream mission, Antyodaya Saral (easy, all-inclusive, real-time, motion-oriented, lengthy-lasting) portal, a unified platform to deliver and track authorities-to-citizen services/schemes, has over 32 lakh residents registering for nearly 491 services in 37 departments of the kingdom government.
The Revenue and Disaster Management Department tops the listing with about 17. Seventy-nine lakh registrations were observed through the Food and Supplies Department, with eight. Sixty-six lakh registrations. While the Social Justice and Empowerment Department came third with 1.35 lakh registrations, the Health Department came subsequent with 1.24 lakh registrations.
Initiated in December 2017, the Antyodaya Saral is mostly aligned with Digital India’s vision of a faceless, paperless, and cashless service/scheme transport model. Besides, it is geared toward remodeling citizen provider delivery in Haryana via the complete digitization of essential offerings to check intermediaries and resultant corruption.
The challenge faced initial teething issues, particularly from vested pursuits within the lower forms and intermediaries. Complaints about the portal’s “ineffective running” continue to pour into the Chief Minister’s Office. Even nowadays, regardless of a spike in registrations, a significant population can choose online offerings despite the state authorities spending crores of rupees on its merchandising.
Data confirmed that online registrations had been catching up inside the kingdom, with nearly 47% recorded in January-May 2019, 32% through the common carrier centers (CSCs), and 21% through the Saral centers.
“The state authorities have prepared a roadmap for digital tracking and delivery of various government schemes and services as part of their good governance tasks. They have long gone a protracted manner to boost the efficiency of presidency departments, checking wastage of time and money with the ultimate goal of eradicating corruption.” ——Manohar Lal Khattar, CM
