Karnataka brings 69 services under Sakala online

Keeping the momentum going, Karnataka government today added 69 of its services online under the 'Sakala' initiative for their delivery in a time-bound manner.

These include 21 services of the Department of Administrative Reforms, ten each from the Department of Primary Education, and Commerce and Industry and five from Drugs Control Department.

Speaking on the initiative, Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister T B Jayachandra, said at present 375 services in different Government departments come under Sakala, including 110 recently added, providing guarantee of services to citizens."We have identified 1,800 to 1,900 government services for bringing them under Sakala. (Of them) 100-120 are ready (to be brought under Sakala).

We are preparing to include them," the minister told reporters. He said the Sakala initiative has attracted all-round appreciation, adding, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, besides Andhra Pradesh, Orissa and Punjab, have evinced interest to study the model.After Sakala, Karnataka Guaranteed Services to Citizens Act, 2011, came into being, 32.4 million applications were received and 31.5 million of them disposed of.

The number of applications being filed has seen steady rise, and last month it was 3.32 million with disposal rate also being high at 98.43 per cent.Jayachandra said the Government is mulling opening a cyber cafe in each Gram Panchayat so that the villagers can take full benefit of the government services.