Jagan launches AP Seva Portal 2.0

Vijayawada: Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on Thursday launched AP Seva Portal 2.0 (Citizen Service Portal) at the camp office near here to deliver better services to the people in a convenient way. Speaking on the occasion, he said that all the officials right from village/ward secretariats to higher authorities will be using AP Seva Portal, a digitised platform to provide citizen services in a transparent manner.

He said that this initiative will take governance much closer to the people where even those in remote villages can avail citizen services right from their doorstep, without running from pillar to post.

Reddy said that the public can track the status of their application themselves without any hassles. Also, SMS alerts on the status of the application will be sent to the applicants.

The portal is also enabled with payment gateways to access paid services. He stated that the new updated portal has over 30 services of revenue and land administration, 25 services of municipal administration, six services of civil supplies, three services of rural development and over 53 services of energy departments.

The Chief Minister said that village /ward secretariat services along with a volunteer system was brought to take governance to the village level, where almost four lakh people are part of the delivery mechanism and offer over 540 services directly to the people. Since January 6, 2020, as many as 3.46 crore government services have been provided to the public through village/ward secretariats.