PITB launches e-Khidmat mobile app

Lahore: Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB) has said that Punjab IT Board in collaboration with the Punjab government has established the eighth mega state-of-the-art e-Khidmat Marakaz in Lahore.

PITB Chairman Dr Umar Saif said this while addressing the launch of the e-Khidmat mobile application to facilitate the general public for more than 17 government; district, provincial and federal; services under one roof, which would start its routine function from March 2 (tomorrow) while it would be formally inaugurated by Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif. He said it was the largest faciliation centre in Punjab. About the salient features of the e-Khidmat mobile app, Dr Umar Saif said that the users of smart phones and internet could easily download the app for all the different platforms such as android, windows and iOS to register themselves and to select the required service and fix time of appointment while sitting at home to avoid the ques or wait without involving any agent’s malpractices to get the services within stipulated time.

He said more than 1,700,000 citizens had so far visited such centres functioning in Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, Lahore, Sargodha, Faisalabad, Sahiwal and Bhawalpur. The Punjab government would establish 37 similar centres across the province. In future, with the participation of private sector on franchise model, their area of activity would be expanded to the tehsil level, he added. The e-Khidmat Markaz also known as Citizen Facilitation and Service Center (CFSC) is the flagship project of PITB to avail government services in a cost-effective manner.