JAMMU: Chief Secretary, Atal Dullo, today had a detailed review of the development of the ‘Kisan Khidmat Ghar’ portal for the Agriculture Production Department by BISAG-N in association with the NIC and IT Department of the Union Territory.
Apart from the Principal Secretary, APD, the meeting was attended by the Commissioner Secretary, IT, MD, HADP, HoDs of the Agriculture Department, representatives from SKUAST Jammu/Kashmir, J&K Bank and other concerned officers of the department.
During the meeting, the Chief Secretary held detailed deliberation over the services, applications and information to be made available over this multi-faceted web portal. He also asked to make it a ‘one-stop solution’ for availing all kinds of agriculture/horticulture-related activities.
The Chief Secretary also discussed the type of services to be taken on board on this new portal. He had feedback from all the stakeholders including the officers, IT professionals, and agricultural academia besides the bank representatives and BISAG engineers.
It was given out in the meeting that the broad contours around which the portal is being designed inculcate Booking/Buying farm inputs/machinery, applying for scheme-based incentives, introducing farmer support system, looking for sale/marketing of products, getting skilled and extension of credit support.
It was further added that currently the work on data collection/collation is going on along with developing relevant content and other APIs for synchronizing it to make Kisan Khidmat Ghar a viable solution for all agri-related avenues and enterprises.
