Thiruvananthapuram: All the services offered through the village offices would be offered online from October 2, chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan said.
All the village offices will be converted as smart village offices in the next five years, he said in the inaugural address at the conference of all village officers in the state on Friday.
The chief minister said that the village offices are the ones on which the public depends the most.
Out of 1666 village offices, 126 have been converted to smart village offices while the work on another 342 are underway.
He said that the attitude of the officials should also change.
Revenue-based services are made available to the common man through village offices and officials at these offices should be willing to update and upgrade themselves.
There has to be positive changes in all village offices, said the chief minister.
The government is aiming at a corruption-free, efficient and people-friendly civil service in the state, he said.
The chief minister said that in the next two years, an integrated land record portal that is based on CORS (continuing operating referral system) will be implemented in all the village offices.
With this, all the services offered through revenue, survey and registration departments will be available through a single portal, he said.
Revenue minister K Rajan said that the government’s plan to computerize all village offices and also make all public utility services available online for easy dispensation will be in addition to new buildings or premises for village offices and also technological know-how for the staff in these offices.
The agenda of the meeting was to come up with a set of guidelines on how to implement the Vision and Mission 2021-26 programme of the government.
The minister also said that corruption will not be tolerated at any cost.
According to him, inconveniencing a citizen by asking them to come multiple times to get some work done also amounts to corruption as much as accepting money or a bribe in lieu of getting something done.
The social welfare pension scheme that is being distributed by the revenue department will be made available online and a mobile app will be created to make land revenue tax easily payable online, he said.
Close to 1,600 village officers attended this online session which was also attended by principal secretary (revenue) A Jayathilak, land revenue commissioner K Biju and other top revenue officials.