Spreading the success story of Bangalore One to other parts of Karnataka, the e-governance department is looking forward to opening similar centers in neighboring districts of the state.
Speaking to CIOL, M N Vidyashankar, principal secretary, department of e-governance, Government of Karnataka said that the department would open stores in seven to eight districts including Mysore, Belgaum, Shimoga, Hubli, Tumkur, Davangere.
Akin to the name given to the centers in Bangalore, the new centers will be called as Mysore One, Tumkur One and so on. Bangalore-based CMS computers will be the technology partners in providing the IT services and hardware.
Interestingly, unlike the Bangalore center that runs on Microsoft operating system (OS), the new centers would be running on open source OS.
Vidyashankar informed that along with the Karnataka roll out, the Bangalore center has plans to add six centers and introduce around four to five new services in their offerings.
"We would very soon reach to around 62 centers within the Bangalore city, with the opening of new centers and are at the final stages of introducing new services from tourism aspect, insurance premium collection etc from Bangalore One centers."
This initiative that was started around two an half a year ago, by the Government of Karnataka is aimed to provide integrated services to the citizens deploying the tools of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) so as to enhance Speed, Convenience, Certainty and Accountability in providing such services through the concept of a 'One-Stop-Shop' facility.
In these years, Bangalore One has got eight to nine lakh users. Last year, it earned roughly Rs 1600 crore of revenue from these centers. At present, there are around 56 centers in the city offering around 31 services including private services like, credit card/telephone bill payments, information services, registration and many more.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Akanksha Prasad
Quelle/Source: CIOL, 09.12.2009
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