Wednesday, March 11, 2020

Kaskey Survey Office launches app to provide services online


Kaski, Mar. 7:
District Survey Office of Kaski has launched a mobile application to provide its service directly to people without any hassles and support from the middlemen.
Minister for Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation Padma Kumari Aryal launched the first ever app of this type amidst a programme on Saturday.
The interactive mobile application is named ‘Napi Pokhara SOKP’.
The government is planning to implement such technology-based service programme across the country, said Minister Aryal speaking at the closing programme of a two-day skill development workshop on survey management organised by the Department of Survey in Kaski.
The government has already launched online-based services in land revenue offices.
“We have initiated campaign for reform in land administration with the support of modern technology in providing the service. It has contributed to enhancing good governance in government offices,” she said.
She warned the government officers that the dillydallying in the service would not be tolerated and urged them to adhere to the legal provisions while extending their services. According to her, the impact of the use of technology in government services would be visible in near future and people would get the services in a quick and reliable way.
Minister Aryal also said that the civil servants must not show individual interest while dealing with the public.
Director General of the Department of Survey Prakash Joshi said that the app would be expanded to every district in the country. “I am hopeful that the app would not only ease in delivering and receiving the services of the office but also in improving the image of the department and its offices as well,” he said.
Chief of Kaski Survey Office Khim Lal Gautam maintained that the ‘Napi Pokhara SOKP’ app was launched to clean the land administration.
Services like obtaining token for daily services, filling forms, map printing and tracing, printing plot register, field mapping, area trial check, land segmentation and tallying the records can be obtained through the mobile app.
It has templates of application for various services of the survey offices, information of obtaining services, information about the office and provision for the compliant.


Published in The Rising Nepal daily on 8 March 2020. 

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