State agencies will have to collect all information needed for requested documents themselves – freeing people from endless visits to various departments and hours of queuing, a common feature across the country.
The long awaited changes, however, are not coming all at once. Federal agencies are to start using the system first, and the regional authorities are to join them on July 1 next year.
Do it themselves
The system which will make different agencies have to get required documents from each other, liberating the mere mortal on the street from sorting it out themselves. The scheme is one of the main facets of a program to bring e-government to Russia.
It has cost 130 million rubles ($3.95 million), but some agencies haven’t started using it yet.
But setting it up is not a hi-tech process, “It goes without saying it isn’t happening online,” Mikhail Tyurin, head of information technologies and information protection department at the Ministry of Internal Affairs, told Moskovskiye Novosti.
The new rules set a five day timeline to process all requests, with just few exceptions when it can take up to 10 days.
Work in progress
Although the law came in force on Oct. 1, officials have still to finish up preparations to make the system fully functional. At least 24 bodies are not ready to join the system, CNews agency reported, citing the results of Interfax monitoring.
The federal tax and the pension fund, expected to be the busiest under the new regime, are only 40-50 percent ready to enter the new era, Komsomolskaya Pravda reported. Services provided by the immigration service, the Russian State Register and the Exchequer are also expected to be popular.
Altogether, there will be 61 agencies included in the program, said Deputy Prime Minister Vyacheslav Volodin, KP reported.
“Agencies governed by the Russian Social Development Ministry and affiliated structures … have eased up the provision for 39 services,” reported Moskovskiye Novosti, citing an official statement from Deputy Minister Alexander Safronov.
The Internal Affairs Ministry has switched five out of 48 of their services to a digital format, MN reported.
And Tyurin said the Internal Affairs Ministry will be able to switch to the new e-mode by 2014.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Alina Lobzina
Quelle/Source: Tne Moscow News, 04.10.2011
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