600 districts to be covered by March: Satyanarayana

e-district Mission Mode Project: 44 districts covered so far

J Satyanarayana, secretary, Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), Ministry of Communications & Information Technology (MCIT), on Friday said e-district Mission Mode Project will cover 100 districts by March. He added that the e-governance initiative has covered 44 districts so far since its launch in 2010.

He said the project, costing over Rs 1,600 crore, would cover more than 600 districts in the country in next three years.

"The project proposes to deliver different government certificates and permissions online at the district level and allied subordinate offices. The project is being well received by people wherever it has been introduced," Satyanarayana told Newsline, while speaking at the inauguration of country's fastest supercomputer at C-DAC in the city on Friday.

Creation and distribution of certificates for income, domicile, caste, birth, death, issue of Arms licenses, ration card, disbursement of old-age pensions, family pensions, widow pensions and Online filing and receipt of information relating to the Right to Information Act are some of the services the government has been delivering through e-district project using e-governance.

Selected districts from Maharastra, Assam, Bihar, Haryana, Mizoram, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal were chosen for the pilot launch in 2010.

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