Gujarat to launch ‘Digital Seva Setu’ to offer public welfare services online in rural areas

The state government of Gujarat has announced a ‘Digital Seva Setu’ programme to ensure optimum utilisation of technology for public welfare in rural areas.
The program has been initiated under the Centre’s Bharat Net Project.
Under the ‘Digital Seva Setu’ program, public welfare services will be made available in all the 14,000 gram panchayats in the state by connecting village panchayats through optical fiber network.
Each village panchayat will get e-gram office so that villagers will not have to go all the way to taluka or district-level offices.
All the gram panchayats will be connected to the state data center at Gandhinagar.
Initially, 20 services will be offered to villagers under the programme like ration cards, affidavits and certificates for widows, residence, caste, senior citizen, language-based minority, a religious minority, nomad-denotified, and income certificates at their doorstep.