J&K Chief Secretary Dr Arun Kumar Mehta (left)

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SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir chief secretary, Dr Arun Kumar Mehta, chaired a meeting with the concerned Administrative Secretaries to review the implementation of the Rapidโ€ฆ

SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir chief secretary, Dr Arun Kumar Mehta, chaired a meeting with the concerned Administrative Secretaries to review the implementation of the Rapid Assessment System (RAS) in Jammu and Kashmir and the nature of feedback being received.

It was informed that a total of 209 online services of 29 departments have been taken up for integration with the RAS which provides for automated reach out to citizens seeking feedback on the quality of services availed by them.

It was informed that the โ€˜Domicile Certificateโ€™ service of the Revenue Department has received the maximum feedback or response with 73 per cent of users rating the quality of service delivery as โ€œGoodโ€, 9 per cent as average and 18 per cent as bad. Moreover, 92 per cent of applicants for โ€˜Marriage Certificateโ€™ through the Revenue Department also voted their experience as โ€œGoodโ€ while 8 per cent of users voted as bad.

The Departmentโ€™s service for โ€˜Approval for diesel generator set installationโ€™ received a 100 per cent โ€˜Goodโ€™ rating.

With regard to the Labour and Employment Department, service seekers gave 100 per cent approval ratings to the digital services for renewal of contractor certificate, new contractor registration, and registration under the Motor Transport Workers Act 1961.

Similarly, 82 per cent of citizens who availed โ€˜Post-Metric Scholarship for Pahari speaking peopleโ€™, 65 per cent respondents for โ€˜IGNOAPSโ€™ and 60 per cent for โ€˜ISSSโ€™ of Social Welfare Department rated the services as โ€œGoodโ€, whereas, 75 per cent of the responses received for โ€˜Age Certificateโ€™, 77 per cent for โ€˜Fitness Certificateโ€™, and 68 per cent for โ€˜Physically Challenged Certificateโ€™ services from the Health and Medical Education Department rated the services as โ€œSatisfactoryโ€.

The services for issuance of Birth (93 per cent), Death Certificates (73 per cent); online building permission (73 per cent) being provided by the H&UD Department and the Customized Livelihood Scheme of Mission Youth (83 per cent) also received positive citizen feedback.

Moreover, services like Social Welfare Departmentโ€™s Post Matric Scholarship for SC/OBC/EBC/DNT and Pension for victims of militancy; Fisheries Departmentโ€™s Permission for Fishing; and Revenue Departmentโ€™s Issuance of SC/ST Certificates revealed poor experience by the service seekers.