Kerala becomes the first state in the country to have all the
districts linked into the network of e-districts. With the state-wide
roll-out of the e-district programme, the government aims at bring in
transparency and efficiency in the delivery of government services.

Announcing
the successful completion of the e-district programme to cover all the
districts in the state, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said  that this
made Kerala the first Indian state to have all districts covered under
e-district programme.

He said that the government was keen to
ensure benefits of e-governance reaching the masses. ‘’Projects like
e-district and Aadhaar should strive to bring in benefits to the
citizens,’’ he said.

Referring to the tremendous response to
Aadhaar registrations in Kerala, Chandy said that the state will explore
possibilities with the Central Government to cover Non-Resident
Keralites also under Aadhaar scheme.

With regard to IT, he said:
‘’Though the state could come top in the IT sector, we could not achieve
commendable progress because of the ineptitude attitude.’’ 

Industries
and IT Minister P K Kunhalikkutty said: ‘’The successful implementation
of the e-district programme is a major step towards establishing a
digital society and would help eliminate red-tapism.’’

Revenue
Minister Adoor Prakash gave away the certificates of merit to the
winners. Awards for meritorious performance in implementing e- district
programme were presented to Sajith Babu (Revenue Department), K P Noufal
(Kerala State IT Mission) and  Jayakumar (National Informatics Centre).

The
e-district project, conceived by the Kerala State Information
Technology Mission, in association with the National Informatics Centre
is being implemented to provide all government services to the common
man in his locality and to ensure efficiency, transparency and
reliability of such services.

With the completion of the
programme, the citizens can now file applications at any Akshaya Centre
and receive the certificates from the same centre.

Services
offered through village offices and taluk offices will be accessible
through Akshaya centres in the first phase of the project.Twenty-three
revenue certificates such as caste, nativity, identity, relationship,
succession, encumbrance, location and income have been already made
available online in the first phase.