Jan Soochna portal launch today, details of schemes on one platform

Times of India: Jaipur: Friday, September 13, 2019.

The state government will launch a Jan Soochna portal on September 13. The portal, which has been developed by the information and technology (IT) department, will have information pertaining to 13 departments on a single platform.

In view of this, the IT department has created a public information portal in which information on 23 schemes by 13 departments will be made available initially.

“Later, information relating to all the departments will be made available on the portal," said a department official.

Under Section 4 (2) of the Right to Information Act 2005, provisions were made that different authorities and government departments will voluntarily disclose information through various means including the internet so that in order to seek various information, public shall file least number of application. However, in the past 14 years, the centre and various state governments had not implemented this provision of the section.

Chief minister Ashok Gehlot in a message on the Jan Soochna Portal-2019 leaflet, to be distributed on Friday, said that the next chapter of Rajasthan Innovation Vision (RAJIV) will begin in the form of Jan Soochna portal.

“Through this portal, common people will get information pertaining to 13 departments online in a lucid language. This is inspired by the very spirit of Section 4 (2) of Right to Information Act, 2005, i.e. Proactive Disclosure of Information," Gehlot said in the message.

He said, informations will also be available on self-service 'E-Mitra Plus' kiosk.

The information related to 13 departments include: rural development and panchayati raj department (information on MGNREGA workers, ODF beneficiaries, development works under panchayati raj institutions); health and family welfare department (information on CM free medicines and treatment scheme, on the beneficiaries of Ayushmaan Bharat-Rajasthan Swasthya Bima Yojana); Administrative Reforms Department (RTI); Food and Civil Supplies department (information on beneficiaries of national food security Act, ration card holders, fair price shops); Cooperative department (information on beneficiaries of the loan waiver scheme, disbursal of short-term crop loans and purchase of pulses and oilseeds at minimum support price).

The other departments are: primary and secondary education (information on Shala Darpan and Shala Darshan); social justice and empowerment department (information on special schemes, Palanhar and its beneficiaries and information on beneficiaries of social security pension scheme); labour and employment department (information on labour card holders); mining department (clearance report DMFT); planning, IT and communications department (information on State Resident Data Repository card holders, E-mitra kiosks); revenue department (land records); tribal area development department (Forest Rights Act, Community Forest Rights); Energy department (information on consumers, status of applications).