PANAJI
Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Friday launched “Know Your Scheme” service under Goa online portal with the aim of less Government and more governance in assisting the public in providing Government benefits at their doorsteps.
Speaking after launching the scheme, the Chief Minister said citizens are not aware of the various benefits provided by the Government.
This service is an endeavour by the Government to provide information of all beneficiary oriented schemes at the doorstep of the last person, the Chief Minister added.
Sawant said the Government through the Department of Information Technology in coordination with the Directorate of Planning, Statistics & Evaluation has taken up a new initiative on developing “Know Your Schemes” service on Goa online portal, which will provide the scheme details eligible to them and guide the citizens for identifying all the related schemes by feeding their details on the portal such as personal/demographic/ socio-economic/education/sector-wise information. The “Know Your Schemes” service is developed by Goa Electronics Limited under the e-district programme.
The Chief Minister said that schemes offered by various departments will be easily accessible along with scheme notification, eligibility, and benefits all under one platform.
With “Know Your Schemes” citizens will be able to identify all the related schemes based on their personal, demographic, socio-economic, education, sector-wise information on a single portal. The system will auto assess the citizen's requirements, map the same and list out the related schemes department wise that can be availed, the Chief Minister added.
Sawant said as of now 20 departments have uploaded the relating to 190 various public-oriented schemes and added that scope is expanding and likely to cover all Government Schemes in the portal soon.
He urged the people to approach the respective panchayat in case of any difficulties and also directed the panchayats to assist all such people so that the benefits of the related schemes reach all deserving and last persons of the society.
Puneet Kumar Goel, IAS, Principal Secretary (Finance), Revati Kumar, CEO & Executive Director, GEL, Asha Sambary, Deputy Director Planning, Statistics and Evaluation, Dilesh Khandeparkar, Manager GEL, Puskar Prabhudessai, Software Engineer, GEL and Hirendra Naik, Assistant Director Information and Technology were present on the occasion.
Earlier Ankita Anand, IAS, Director Information Technology welcomed while Dr Y Durga Prasad, Director Planning, Statistics and Evaluation proposed the vote of thanks.
