SRINAGAR, AUGUST 29: Chief Secretary, Atal Dulloo today chaired a meeting of different stakeholders to take a firsthand appraisal of different IT interventions contemplated by the Health, Jal Shakti, and other Departments to make their services reliable and accessible to the public.
Besides ACS Jal Shakti and ACS Forest, the meeting was attended by the Principal Secretary, PDD; Commissioner Secretary, IT; Secretary of Health; Secretary of Revenue; Secretary of Planning; MD, JJM; MD, HADP; SIO, NIC; representatives of BISAG-N and other concerned officers.
Outstation officers participated in the meeting through video conferencing.
During the meeting, the Chief Secretary had a detailed discussion with the stakeholders about the technological interventions that could bring efficiency to the working of their Departments and make them more accessible to the end users.
To make the process more fruitful and time-bound, the Chief Secretary advised that each Department should first identify the problem statement to develop the respective workflows for creating solutions with the utilization of modern technology available in the market.
He further enjoined the concerned Departments to collate the requisite content for uploading and its integration with the system. He also asked them to look for available options developed elsewhere so that same could be replicated here.
Besides this, the Chief Secretary took this occasion to impress upon the concerned to constitute a dedicated team of professionals to work in close coordination with BISAG-N for commencing their work instantly with regular follow-up by the higher-ups in the Department.
Regarding the concept of developing an IoT/SCADA-based Smart Water Measurement & Monitoring system, the ACS Jal Shakti Department, Shaleen Kabra, apprised the meeting that such an arrangement should address the concerns of end users along with help the administration in making the right decisions.
He revealed that this IT initiative is aimed at ensuring timely and adequate water supply to consumers along with addressing the disruptions and maintenance of water supply schemes in an automated fashion.
As far as the upgradation of G2C services is concerned, the Commissioner Secretary, IT informed the meeting that the Department had identified the 50 most sought out services by the public to create end-to-end digitized solutions for these in collaboration with BISAG-N.
Secretary H&ME, Dr Syed Abid divulged the concept of the Department to manage all the medical services for both patients and medical professionals through an IT-based SEHAT application.
It was given out that this application aims at extending every kind of support to the patients in making registrations, taking appointments, finding diagnostic facilities along with access to telemedicine, Information about surgical procedures, specialties, blood banks, De-addiction facilities drug stores, providing health alerts and other dozens of facilities and information databases relevant to the Department.
The meeting also took appraisal of the working of recently launched Samadhan portal developed for public grievances management and redressal.
Secretary of the Public Grievances Department, Aijaz Asad apprised the meeting about the status of grievance redressal through this application. He also highlighted certain areas that need intervention from BISAG-N to make the system more efficient, prompt, and user-friendly for the general public.
