Thiruvananthapuram:
Strengthening e-governance, bringing in a Right to Hearing and Kerala infrastructure bills are some of the programmes included in 'Mission 676' of the three-year old Congress-led UDF government to be implemented in the coming days.
"The government has streamlined a set of projects to be implemented during its remaining 676 days in office. All the projects taken up will be completed in a time bound manner,"
Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said addressing a press conference in Thiruvananthapuram.
Replying to a question, he said that the government has not given up the Air Kerala project. The state has approached the Centre for relaxing conditions such as five years experience in operating in the domestic circuit and the requirement of 20 aircrafts for starting air services, Mr Chandy said.
The service planned on the Gulf sector would help low income migrants from Kerala working in those regions, he added.
The Chief Minister said one of the focus area would be to strengthen the e-governance programme. The objective was to introduce more services online, he said.
Presently 38 government services are available online and the plan was make available 130 services in the next four months and increase it to 400 by the end of this fiscal, Mr Chandy said.
A legislation on Right to Hearing, similar to the one that exists in Rajasthan would be brought forward. This would empower people with the right for hearing, he said.
Another was an Infrastructure legislation for speedy implementation and overcoming hurdles in carrying out projects he said.
Kochi Metro, SmartCity IT park at Kochi, Vizhijanman port development, Kannur Airport, development of National Highways were some of the works taken up under Nine 'Navarathana
projects', he said.