Most citizen services to go online by 2014

Rs 30,000 cr to be spent on e-governance plan

Sreejiraj Eluvangal. New Delhi

By 2014, you can probably avoid doing the rounds of depressing government offices for receiving your pension, applying for passport and driving licence,or getting your marriage certificates.

Under the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP), the Centre, states and private sector parties will be investing around Rs30,000 crore to bring government services closer to citizens through information technology. The government has already spent Rs10,000 crore on digitising government records and making them available online and creating more than 80,000 access can tres for the data

"Out for the targeted 1,100 types of services (to be delivered over the internet), 600 can already be accessed. All the services will be available by 3014," said India's top bureaucrat, cabinet secretary KM Chandrashekhar, after a meeting of the apex committee on NeGP.