Karnataka has made rapid strides in realising the Prime Minister’s Digital India vision, said Srivatsa Krishna, secretary, department of e-governance, Karnataka.
Karnataka has made rapid strides in realising the Prime Minister’s Digital India vision, said Srivatsa Krishna, secretary, department of e-governance, Karnataka. “By deploying Mobile One, a multi-channel mobile services platform, the government has showed that “Road to Digital India starts from Bengaluru,” he said.
Making a presentation on Mobile One at the third Express IT Awards programme, Krishna said Mobile One is seeing one lakh hits and downloads every single day with zero advertising. Mobile One has been nominated for Prime Minister’s award for 2016 and for UN Public Service Award in New York which is coming up in April next year.
This mobile-governance tool provides citizens access to over 4,000 services through handheld devices.
Demonstrating Karnataka’s e-governance initiatives in public governance, Krishna explained that long before the Digital India vision was set out, the Karnataka state had launched e-procurement system in all government contracts, which helps plug leakages.
Karnataka is the only state in India which does end-to-end electronic procurement. It is governed by an Act of Karnataka government, KTPP, where any procurement above R5 lakh has to be done electronically. The value of tenders is Rs 2.5 lakh crore every single year, Krishna said.
“We are the only state to do end-to-end contract management and catalogue management on the app. The World Development Report, which will be released shortly in Washington DC has identified two global best practices from India and both are from Karnataka. One is e-procurement and the second is Mobile One,” Krishna said.
In June this year, the prime minister told all state governments to integrate their state and district level database with Aadhaar, so that bogus beneficiaries could be weeded out and target government programmes better. The Karnataka government has again taken a lead in this and onboarded 11 departments already and another 37 departments will be onboarded soon, he said.