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While launching the first phase of ‘Digital Seva Setu’ programme, under which 2,792 village panchayats have been connected with optical fibre networks to provide public welfare services online chief minister Vijay Rupani said the programme, under the Centre’s BharatNet project, will reduce hardships faced by villagers.

Digital Seva Setu under Bharat Net Project

The Digital Seva Setu in Gujarat has been initiated under the Central government’s Bharat Net Project. It is an initiative to connect the village panchayats through fibre network and is meant to ensure the optimum utilization of technology for public welfare.

Gujarat Digital Seva Setu Programme (Phase 1)

Digital Seva Setu Programme Phase 1 is an initiative under the central govt’s BharatNet project. This programme is meant to ensure optimum utilisation of technology for public welfare and will bring in a “historic administrative revolution”. As part of the programme, all the public welfare services will be available at e-gram offices in each panchayat.

Services Offered

the concerned authority will provide the following services through the digital Seva Setu program of Gujarat:-

• Ration cards
• Affidavits and certificates for widows
• Residence Certificate
• Caste Certificate
• Senior citizen certificate
• Language-based minority certificate
• Religious minority certificate
• Nomad-denotified community certificate
• Income certificate

Fees Of The Scheme

• All the citizens will have to pay a nominal fee of Rs 20 for each service, a part of which will go to the village panchayat.

• This programme is also a step to fulfill the vision and mission of Digital India of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
• The objective is to provide the benefits of the public welfare services at the doorstep of the villagers. Around 3500 villages will be provided with the optical fibre network through the scheme.
• With this service, the villagers will be able to get various documents like duplicate ration cards, senior citizen certificate, income certificate, caste certificate at their doorstep.

• On 8 October 2020, the Digital Seva Setu Programme would be launched in 2,700 villages.
• The Digital Seva Setu Programme is the digital form of’ Seva Setu’ programme
• Under the ‘Digital Seva Setu’ program, public welfare services will be made available in all the 14,000-gram panchayats in Gujarat by connecting village panchayats through an optical fiber network.
• The programme will help the people residing in villages who will not be required to visit taluka or district headquarters to get required documents and certificates, as these will be available at the gram panchayat level.
• The state Govt also launched a Digital Seva Setu programme for rural areas that will help the village panchayats to provide several documentation-related services.
• In the first phase of the programme, the state government’s science and technology department, in association with BharatNet, will deliver 27 government services and schemes to more than 3,000-gram panchayats of the state.
• The digital Seva Setu services will be available in 8,000 villages by December 2020 this year.