VIJAYAWADA: Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has felt that Real Time Governance (RTG) should be the main data resource for the State government.
Chairing a meeting on RTG at the State Secretariat on Friday, the Chief Minister said the data of all the departments should be brought onto a common platform to interlink, and through this data analysis all the welfare schemes and other development programmes should be implemented effectively by the government.
“RTG should work as a support tool to the government to help the ruling dispensation at all times,” Naidu said.
As citizens still need to make several rounds to the government offices to get certificates like birth, death, residential, revenue and academic qualification documents, Naidu stressed the need for mending this system.
Announcing that the government will soon initiate steps to make WhatsApp governance available to the people to extend all kinds of services that are needed to them, the Chief Minister directed the officials to work towards this direction.
When the officials informed the Chief Minister that data with regard to 40 lakh people in the State is still not available with them, Naidu instructed them to immediately collect the data and take steps to get it interlinked.
The Chief Minister also directed the officials to interlink all the houses in the State through GPS.
Minister for Information Technology and RTG Nara Lokesh informed the Chief Minister that efforts are already on to provide at least 100 services to the people through WhatsApp.
Steps are also being taken to see to it that in another 90 days students get their academic certificates through a QR code and all the steps are being taken to accelerate the process, the IT Minister informed.
The officials brought it to the notice of the Chief Minister that though there are guidelines that there is no need to submit physical certificates with digital signature, a majority of officers are not aware of this norm and thus they are demanding students to submit physical certificates.
The Chief Minister immediately instructed all the officials to take steps to promote awareness on this norm among students in a big way.
Naidu is of the opinion that by intelinking the whole data there will be transparency in the administration, giving no scope for corruption.
Hence, the officials should accelerate the process of data integration and complete it at the earliest, the Chief Minister said.
Naidu also directed the officials to see to it that every individual in the State gets Aadhaar card and ensure that even the newborn child should get it.
The officials informed the Chief Minister that the government has a total of 40 departments and 500 TB data is available from 178 data fields in 128 wings.
Chief Secretary Neerabh Kumar Prasad, Secretary of Real Time Governance S Suresh Kumar, RTGS CEO K Dinesh Mumar and other officials attended the meeting.