Thiruvananthapuram: The district administration has issued directives to officials concerned to complete the work on smart village offices in a timely manner.
In a meeting held at the collectorate here on Friday, it was presented that work on Kudavoor, Madavoor, Vilappil, Vakkom and Vithura village offices has been 95% completed.
The village offices at Ayiroor, Pettah, Ulloor and Nedumangad will be temporarily shifted to another place to facilitate the work on conversion to smart offices.
Thirty village offices will be made smart village offices as part of Rebuild Kerala project.
State Nirmithi Kendra is in charge of the project.
Five village offices are in the first stage of construction.
Remaining offices will be demolished and new ones will be built.
Administrative sanction has been received for the upgradation of civil station, Kudapanakkunnu.
PWD will be in charge of the work.
Government-level works have begun on construction of Nedumangad revenue divisional office and Thiruvananthapuram taluk office.
Nine village offices in the district had earlier received administrative sanction to be upgraded as smart village office.
These offices include Maranallur, Thycaud, Navaikulam, Pallipuram, Kallikadu, Kadinamkulam, Cheruvakkal, Kadakkavur and Pattom.
Kadinamkulam and Maranallur were earlier declared smart villages.
Three village offices — Cheruvakkal, Kadakkavur and Pattom — were included in smart village plan in the district for 2017-18.
SMART (speedy, modern, assured, responsible, transparent) village office aims at converting village offices into people-friendly centres where speedy delivery of service is implemented in modern ambience in an assured, transparent and responsible manner.
The project envisages construction of buildings with modern facilities, including facilities for public and incorporating possibilities of e-governance.
Any kind of service related to smart village office can be availed from any place at any time.
Parasuvakkal, Karupur, Nemom and Nagarur are the four villages in the district which had received administrative sanction during 2018-19 to be converted into smart villages.