Get 62 services under one roof from July 29

Tribune News Service

Muktsar, July 25

Set up nearly eight months ago, the state government finally decided to make the Unified Citizen Services Delivery Centres (UCSDCs) functional from July 29. The centres will provide 62 services to citizens.

Though all centres will not be made operational, a formal inauguration ceremony will be done in all 22 districts by state ministers and chief parliamentary secretaries.

Deputy CM Sukhbir Badal will inaugurate the centres in Pathankot, Bholath and Dera Bassi, while in Muktsar, CPS Parkash Chand Garg will open two centres.

The government has spent nearly Rs250 crore in constructing 2,147 centres across the state — 1,758 in rural areas and 389 in urban. These centres will provide services of almost every department under one roof.

Ram Singh, SDM, Muktsar, today held a meeting with officials of the departments concerned and informed them that initially two such centres would be opened in the district. The centres will be run by a private company.

Sources said in urban areas, the centres had been constructed within a radius of 1.5-2.5 sq km based on the population density, while in the rural areas, the centres had been constructed for every cluster of villages having a population of 8,000-10,000.