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Haryana to open e-Disha centres

Special Correspondent

To make Govt. services more accessible

CHANDIGARH: The Haryana Government proposes to set up 101 e-Disha Service Centres in urban areas and 1,159 Citizen Service Centres in the rural areas to make multiple services of the Government more easily accessible and also to open up new avenues of employment for unemployed youth in Information Technology.

According to an official spokesman here, these centres would be set up under the Government of India Citizen Service Centre Scheme.

The people would also get reliable and timely information straight from the Government. As there would be no intermediaries, the time of delivery of service would be reduced thus ensuring quick redress of grievances.

Initially 39 services related to driving licences, vehicle registration, land record copy, arms licences, house tax, birth and death certificates, caste, residence, income and rural area certificates and passport were being provided through these centres.

The State Government is setting up the e-Disha service centres in public-private partnership to provide services in rural areas at par with urban areas and ensure that the benefits of public welfare schemes percolate to the grassroots level.

Ladli pension scheme

The Haryana Government has earmarked Rs.2.38 crores under the Ladli Social Security Pension Scheme during the current financial year.

Stating this here on Saturday, an official spokesman said the scheme was a unique initiative taken by the Hooda Government to improve the socio-economic status of women and check the declining sex ratio.

The scheme had specially been introduced for families that had only daughters and suffered from "feelings of insecurity that they would be left alone in life after the marriage of their daughters".

Only such parents, one or both of whom belonged to Haryana, could benefit from this scheme. They should also not have their own son or any adopted son.

A monthly pension of Rs.300 is being given under this scheme to the registered families from the 55th to 60th birthday of the mother or father, after which they would become eligible for old age allowance.

He said in case the mother or the father died during this period, the living spouse would get the pension till the age of 60.

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