Digital India pilot: Karnataka's 4,187 services rolled into one mobile app
With Prime Minister Narendra Modi going all out to push the concept of Digital India, the Centre has asked for details of Congress-ruled Karnataka's mobile-governance platform, which integrates 4,187 services, both government and private, into one app, Mobile-One. The intent is to study it, get other states to replicate it and scale it up to the national level.
Seven months after its launch by President Pranab Mukherjee in December 2014 with the intent of giving integrated services
"We got a letter of appreciation from the Union IT and Telecom minister Ravishankar Prasad. A a team from the Centre came down to see how we are implementing it. It is a one-of-a-kind App and we are making it as vibrant as possible," Rathan U Kelkhar, CEO of the Centre for e-governance, Karnataka, told ET.
In view of this success and keeping in mind the PM's focus on the mobile as the means to reach out services to every citizen in the country, the National e-Governance Division (NeGD),
Agarwal said the issue was of scaling it up nationally was " under examination right now. But this is a strong concept and it will happen across the states in near future." Making a distinction between Karnataka's Mobile-One and the M-Seva app set up by the Centre, he said: "M-Seva is giving service delivery through individual mobile apps and Mobile-One is integrating services delivery on one mobile app, where in the backend you select different services and take the delivery. They can both co-e ..
With Prime Minister Narendra Modi going all out to push the concept of Digital India, the Centre has asked for details of Congress-ruled Karnataka's mobile-governance platform, which integrates 4,187 services, both government and private, into one app, Mobile-One. The intent is to study it, get other states to replicate it and scale it up to the national level.
Seven months after its launch by President Pranab Mukherjee in December 2014 with the intent of giving integrated services
"We got a letter of appreciation from the Union IT and Telecom minister Ravishankar Prasad. A a team from the Centre came down to see how we are implementing it. It is a one-of-a-kind App and we are making it as vibrant as possible," Rathan U Kelkhar, CEO of the Centre for e-governance, Karnataka, told ET.
In view of this success and keeping in mind the PM's focus on the mobile as the means to reach out services to every citizen in the country, the National e-Governance Division (NeGD),
Agarwal said the issue was of scaling it up nationally was " under examination right now. But this is a strong concept and it will happen across the states in near future." Making a distinction between Karnataka's Mobile-One and the M-Seva app set up by the Centre, he said: "M-Seva is giving service delivery through individual mobile apps and Mobile-One is integrating services delivery on one mobile app, where in the backend you select different services and take the delivery. They can both co-e ..
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