IPTV and VoIP services and optical fibre manufacturing company, Aksh Optifibre has announced that it will open over 10,000 e-governance kiosks across rural and urban Rajasthan by 2016, as part of the next phase of Government of Rajasthan’s (GoR) e-Mitra project. GoR’s Department of IT & Communication commissioned this project, with the aim of providing citizens with various government and private services through one-stop kiosks, which are branded as 1 Stop Aksh. Apparently, 110 services are made available to citizens though this programme, currently. Here’s a list of all services (pdf), currently, offered under the e-Mitra programme and charges for each. Partnership with local residents The new set of e-kiosks will be operated by Aksh in partnership with individual kiosk holders, who will be selected from among local residents. These kiosk holders will administer the services on behalf of Aksh, while the company will continue operating the existing set of e-kiosks. The company said that it will setup, train and deploy each new e-kiosk. This will, apparently, be preceded by a strict verification process of potential kiosk holders, including a physical verification to ensure strict compliance across all of its kiosks. At present, Aksh works as the local service provider in Jaipur, Bharatpur, Dholpur, Jhunjhnu and Sikar. They have over 700 e-kiosks spread across these locations and provide services like, online payment of utility bills, passport application form submissions, issuing character verification certificates, issuing Aadhaar cards, Bhamashah IDs and banking services, among others. The company claims that it generated cumulative…
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