The 124 public service centres, established in Virudhunagar district under the e-governance scheme, have so far issued 19,105 certificates to the public, according to the Collector, V. Rajaraman.
The centres that dispensed certificates from the Department of Revenue and applications for various welfare schemes implemented by the Department of Social Welfare would soon have more value-added services like payment of electricity bill and booking of tickets, he said.
The service, introduced in Virudhunagar on December 24 last year, now had 112 public service centres operated by primary agriculture cooperative credit societies and land development banks, four by village poverty eradication committees and eight in taluk offices by the Tamil Nadu Arasu Cable TV Corporation.
The Collector, who inspected the functioning of the centres in Sattur and Virudhunagar taluk offices on Thursday, explained that e-signature of the deputy tahsildar or tahsildar would be affixed in applications seeking certificates from the Department of Revenue within seven days, following which an SMS would be sent to the applicant.
On receipt of the SMS, the applicant can collect the certificate from the public service centre, according to an official press release.
