Andhra Pradesh has agreed to share its e-governance initiative Mee Seva with other states.
Under Mee Seva (meaning at your service) launched a year ago, the state government is offering 45 various services and plans to increase the same to 100 services in two to three months.
Services like issuance of birth, caste and income certificates are being performed for citizens in 15 to 20 minutes, which earlier used to take 10 to 15 days.
Under various e-governance projects across the country citizen services were being offered to 8.2 crore people. "Plan to increase this number to 15 crore by March 2013 and 30 crore by March 2014"
According to one estimate, this has saved annually Rs.4,000 crore to Rs.6,000 crore which the citizens used to pay as bribe to government officers at various levels for the services.
Planned to use the information and communication technology in health services aimed at pregnant women. In student scholarships helped the government save Rs.300 crore every year, which was being misappropriated.
The state is now planning to link all the welfare schemes to Aadhar to check the leakages. It has already covered six crore out of 8.3 crore people under Aadhar.
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