Minister for Information Technology and Communications Ponnala Lakshmaiah launched the MeeSeva portal and MeeSeva-Airtel Money Services at a private hotel here on Monday.
Speaking on the occasion, the minister said that the State Government’s vision was to ensure that people living across the State uniformly avail the benefits of the government schemes and programmes in a transparent, seamless and instant manner without any hassles.
Regarding the AirTel Money, he said that with an estimated 90 crore people in India using mobile phones, the ubiquitous mobile device has become an integral part of our country’s lifestyle, allowing the customers not only to connect with one another, but do much more. The new initiative, Airtel-Mee Seva, is focused at driving innovations using the mobile platform. Through this the Airtel users would be able to make all utility bill payments. He hoped that this service would bring a radical change in the way the citizens of AP transact.
The minister described Mee Seva – Airtel money platform as a unique citizen–centric service initiative that makes payment of utility bills much easier where one could pay through mobile phone by just dialing *400#.
Lakshmaiah also launched the Mee Seva portal “www.meeseva.gov.in” on this occasion. He said both eSeva normal bill payment system and Mee Seva – Certificates Delivery system have been integrated to enable citizens to make payments through Mee seva also. An overall picture of State level electronic transactions is also brought onto the sight for better monitoring. Through this portal, payments can be made using Credit Card, Debit Card, 30 banks under Net banking, Cash card and Air Tel Money.
The users registered with www.esevaonline.com can make transactions through meeseva.gov.in to make payments for bills of as many as 12 services. The portal also provides automated payment gateway for Payments to participating departments such as District e-governance societies (Revenue Department), SSLR, Registration department and GHMC.
The minister said that the automated payment gateway would be extended to all participating departments like TRANSCO, Water works and RTA in near future. Certificates and Documents, offered through “Mee Seva” are digitally signed, legally valid, and printed on secured stationery and delivered across the counter or through post.
Mee Seva was launched by the Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on pilot basis on November 4 last year with 12 services in Chittoor district. Presently, the Mee Seva is available in all districts with 38 service serving nearly 50,000 citizens every day.
Lakshmaiah said that by March 2013, 100 services pertaining to various departments would be available to the citizens and the transactions were expected to cross 100,000 per day. Efforts are being made to have minimum of 150 Centers in each district by December this year to cater to the demand in a timely manner. Efforts are also on to add Ration card service, Pattadar Passbook services under Mee Seva by the end of this month, he said.
The minister also informed that e-India – 2012, the largest ICT event in the country, would be held in the city on November 15-16 in which more than 2,000 high level representatives from all tiers of Government, ICT industry, civil society and academia from India and abroad would participate.
Bharati Airtel AP’s CEO Sharlin Thayil, Secretary IT&C Sanjay Jaju and other senior officials were also present.
–Agencies