Chandigarh, May 27, 2013: Punjab Government has started an ambitious project named “PAWAN” aimed at interconnecting all the government offices of Punjab in the second phase of administrative reforms campaign, which would further bring transparency and speedy service delivery to the masses at the bottom level.
Disclosing this here today, an official spokesman of the Punjab Government said that under the PAWAN project various offices at state head quarter, District, Blocks and Panchyats would be inter connected, which would further connected to the SDC (state Data Centre) at Mohali. He further said that with the completion of this project, state government would be able to keep a close watch on the functioning of the offices at grass root level while sitting at head quarter.
He said that in the next 18-24 months, all village Panchyats of the state would have internet access, for which the Punjab Government has signed the tri-partite agreement on last April 12 with Ministry of Information and Communication Technology and Bharat Broadband Network Limited (BBNL) for laying optical fibre network in all villages across the state.
In the first phase 139 offices of Government, Boards and Corporations situated at Mohali and Chandigarh would be covered till August 31, 2013, whereas more than 2000 offices in field to be connected with SDC by December this year, he added. He said that by July 2013, offices of the newly created districts of Fazilka and Pathankot would also to be connected with district network centre.
Giving the details about the SDC, he said that it would be operational from Mahatma Gandhi State Institute of Public Administration Chandigarh by the end of this year costing about Rs 50 crore. He said that after the completion of this whole project, the information regarding the functioning of government offices in the state would be available with just a click on computer, which would be a big bonus in the field of administrative reforms, he added.