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The Andhra Pradesh Cabinet has approved the implementation of the ₹2,400-crore e-Pragati project, a comprehensive e-governance project simplifying the process of delivery of government and citizen services.
Developed in association with Wipro in eight months, this project provides a comprehensive framework for implementing e-governance, transforming the State into Digital AP and facilitating electronic delivery of services to citizens.
According to the government, with e-Pragati, Andhra Pradesh becomes the first State to conceive and execute a state-wide enterprise architecture.
Project coverage
“This project will become a model in Government Enterprise Architecture in India,” N Chandrababu Naidu, Chief Minister, said.
The e-Pragati project covers 33 Secretariat departments and over 300 government agencies in the State. It seeks to provide 745 services in the government to customer (G2C), government to business (G2B), government to enterprise (G2E) and government to government (G2G) areas.
It consists of 72 projects grouped into 14 packages, with estimated outlay of ₹2,358 crore. These will be funded and implemented over a three-year period. Of this, the government will invest ₹1,528 crore and the rest will be through public-private participation (PPP).
Key components
The major components of e-Pragati revolve around 7 missions, 5 grids and 5 campaigns. These include AP Fibre Grid up to all gram panchayats, AP State Data Centre to host all the data and applications, e-Highway to seamlessly connect all the departments digitally and People Hub to house all the socio-economic data of the citizens for effective implementation of welfare schemes and development programmes.
Other services/projects include Lab Hub with details of land, Dial AP (a unified contact/call centre for citizens to access services) and e-Learning platform (that provides learning and online material/education aid to enhance quality of education).
Social benefit
In addition, the project covers social benefits management system covering welfare schemes, mSeva (a platform for providing a wide range of citizen services on mobile), e-AgriMarket (a platform that enables farmers to sell their produce online to get the best price) and e-Panchayat (enhances efficiency of panchayat raj institutions).
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