Prasad to write to J&K CM for making more govt services online

Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today said he will write to J&K Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti asking her to make more state-government services online to support the Common Service Centre.
"They (CSC owners) are not getting G2C (government-to- citizen) services. I will write to Mehbooba Ji that I am with these kids and your government too should stand by them. They should get G2C service. I will even write Governor of J&K," Prasad said.
The Law and IT minister was addressing J&K Village Level Entrepreneurs conference (VLEs) organised by CSC e-Governance Services India.
CSC makes available government services to people in rural areas online like ration card, birth certificate, train tickets, online form submission. Recently, government has started tie-up with private companies to increase business opportunity at CSCs.

Prasad said that when digital services touch and impact human lives in J&K then there will be new dawn in the state.
The government is expanding services at CSC to support them, Prasad said, adding that Patanjali has started selling products through CSCs and is looking at business of around Rs 10,000 crore from sales through CSCs in next 4-5 years.

"He (Ramdev Baba) has informed me that in coming 4-5 years, he will do business of Rs 8-10,000 crore through CSCs," Prasad said.
He said that Uber taxi service needs drivers in lakhs and they are in tie-up with CSC to appoint drivers online.

"Driver will inform about driving licence, police verification and each driver will have income of Rs 30-50,000 per month," Prasad said.
He said the government wants to establish one CSC in each of the village panchayats across country.
"When I became minister, there were 80,000 CSCs and now there are 2.46 lakh CSCs. We want to make it 2.5 lakh. Every village panchayat should have 1 CSC," Prasad said.
He directed CSC e-Governance CEO that 10,000 CSCs should be opened in J&K where the number is only 1983 across 542 village panchayats. There are 6261 panchayats in the state.
Government is also distributing LED bulbs under a scheme of Power Ministry through CSCs.

A CSC owner, Mahzabeen, from Kashmir valley said that she has been able to sell 2,000 LEDs in a day and there is huge potential to earn from sale of LEDs.