Delhi: 100 doorstep delivery of services by August

The Delhi government has awarded work for its one of the most ambitious projects — doorstep delivery of services on Tuesday. In the first phase, the government will include 100 services to be provided at doorstep. The project will be launched by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in August. 

Under the scheme, assistants will turn up at the doorstep of individuals willing to avail certain government services and upload requisite documents online, ending the need for them to visit government offices. Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal had cleared the project in January. 

“The cabinet had earlier approved doorstep delivery of 40 services, now another 30 public services are being added; another set of 30 services will be added within a period of one month of the launch. It is proposed to roll out the doorstop delivery scheme within two months,” the government said in its release. 

The issue of the doorstep delivery of services was discussed in the previous Cabinet meeting in which the government had asked the Chief Secretary to prepare a report on e-POS machines and submit it in a week. 

Fair Price Shops in Delhi, which sell ration, will no longer use the e-POS Aadhaar-linked machine for distribution of ration, the Cabinet had decided. The shops will, instead, give ration by verifying details on ration cards, which is the way it was being done till November last year.

Baijal had advised the government to reconsider the proposal and focus on digital delivery of services, “as 35 out of 40 services listed in the scheme are already available online”, and set up internet kiosks by unemployed youth for those not able to access the internet.

On February 27, Sisodia had targeted the Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash and blamed him over the delay in doorstep delivery of ration services. The delay in the doorstep delivery of ration services was apparently also discussed in the meeting that happened at the residence of Kejriwal in February. 

NEW PROJECTS

The Cabinet approved the Public Works Department (PWD) proposal for expenditure sanction of Rs 303 crore for the construction of a six-lane flyover at Shastri Park intersection and two-lane flyover at Seelampur. The project will lead to a signal free corridor from UP border to ISBT and will help in getting rid of the massive traffic jams at Shastri Park intersection

CAPACITY BUILDING

The Environment Department has decided to grant consultancy job entitled, “Real Time Source Apportionment study for Air Pollution in Delhi” to Department of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering, University of Washington in St Louise, USA on nomination basis by invoking Rule 194, GFR 2017 for a total project cost of US$ 175,000 ( `1.20 Cr approx)