Karnataka Govt Plans To Expand E-Governance Initiative

Bangalore: The Karnataka government plans to set up 20 more BangaloreOne outlets in the city and also expand its reach to five other cities in the state. The decision to expand the reach of BangaloreOne outlets was taken after the success of the e-governance initiative in 20 centres across Bangalore city. BangaloreOne is the integrated citizens service project of the government of Karnataka, engaged in offering the delivery of a variety of services to the citizens for and on behalf of various government departments, utilities and other agencies through public-private partnership through a 24/7 one-stop shop concept.

The government is preparing to expand the citizens service project to five other cities like Hubli-Dharwad, Mysore, Belgaum and Gulbarga in the next few months. In Hubli-Dharwad the centres will be known as HDOne or Hubli-DharwadOne and similarly in other cities the name of a particular city will be added to the name. At present, 20 counters are generating a business of Rs 2 crore per day for six lakh transactions and within the next few months the government plans to increase the number of transactions to 12-15 lakh per day. The new counters are being opened at MS Building, Indiranagar, Jayanagar shopping complex, Wipro campus at Electronic City and National Games complex in Koramangala. The department is also in negotiations with Income Tax and Commercial Tax departments for collecting income tax and commercial tax on their behalf through BangaloreOne centres.