BICHOLIM
Chief Minister Pramod Sawant has lauded the Common Service Centre (CSC) at Velguem-Bicholim for delivering 3000 plus services to people.
Sawant recently visited the CSC at Velguem to witness the State government’s commitment to delivering the central government’s e-Services to rural and remote locations, where availability of computers and internet were negligible or mostly absent.
Village Level Entrepreneur (VLE) Avdhut Dhond explained to the chief minister about the facilities and the number of transactions completed in the last two years.
Dhond started the CSC at Velguem-Bicholim in October 2018 and Sawant was impressed that the centre has so far delivered over 3,000 services to the people under state and central government schemes and programmes such as Jeevan Praman (Life Certificate), National Pension Scheme, Income Tax Returns, PAN Card, PMJAY (Ayushman Bharat), Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Praman Yojana, Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Maan-Dhan, Diginame, Indian Railways ticket booking.
The CSC has also been responsible to make available the benefits under Skill Development & National Digital Literacy Mission and PM-DISHA free facility to over 300 students in the region.
CSCs are a multiple-services-single-point model to provide facilities for multiple transactions at a single geographical location.
They serve as access points for delivery of essential public utility services, social welfare schemes, healthcare, financial, education and agriculture services, apart from a host of B2C services to citizens in rural and remote areas of the country.
It is a pan-India network catering to the regional, geographic, linguistic and cultural diversity of the country, thus enabling the government's mandate of a socially, financially and digitally inclusive society.
Sawant has emphasised the importance of CSCs in delivering the promise of ‘Antyodaya’ of the central and state governments and reiterated his government’s focus to establish a CSC in every village panchayat of Goa and deliver citizen-related services of the State government, including schemes to the needy.
He has instructed officials concerned to take immediate steps to incorporate the VLEs and CSCs into the Atmanirbhar Bharat - Swayampurna Goa mission, which aims to make a self-reliant Goa through intervention at the village level.
