Similarly, labour and occupational labour complaints will also be processed within 48 hours, Assistant Under-Secretary at the Ministry of Labour, Shaikh Abdulrahman bin Abdulla Al Khalifa has said.
People will be able use the Internet by the end of the year to renew their driving licences, register their vehicles, pay traffic fines, renew their Central Population Register (CPR) cards or register as unemployed.
It is all part of the expansion of e-government to speed up public services, says Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs and Central Informatics Organisation (CIO) president Shaikh Ahmed bin Ateyatalla Al Khalifa.
India, whose highly trained team of experts work in the global IT industry, is an ideal partner for Bahrain in promoting its e-government initiatives, said the newly-appointed Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs and president of the Central Informatics Organisation (CIO), Shaikh Ahmed bin Ateyatalla Al Khalifa.
They will also be able to register as unemployed or renew their Central Population Register (CPR) cards online.
The five new electronic services will be the first phase of the expansion of e-government, to speed up public services, says Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs and Central Informatics Organisation president Shaikh Ahmed bin Ateyatalla Al Khalifa.
United Nations (UN) World Summit Awards (WSA) board chairman and International Centre for New Media (ICNM) honorary president Peter Bruck said more should be done to bridge the digital divide.
"Today, 90 per cent of the content on the Internet is in English, but English is not the mother tongue of most of the people on this planet," he said.