Defence Minister launches interactive web portal of Kendriya Sainik Board Secretariat
The portal, developed by NIC at a cost of Rs. 58.93 lakhs, will later contain workflow software for all the schemes of the Secretariat which will provide complete information about KSB secretariat, its welfare schemes and allied activities. It will also facilitate submission of applications online for assistance by ESM/War Widows from anywhere, anytime.
Besides reducing time for processing of the applications and release of assistance, considerably, it will also facilitate real time tracking of applications by ESM and give them status of their applications by SMSes/Emails.
The event was attended among others by the Minister of State for Defence Rao Inderjit Singh, Secretary Department of ESW Shri Prabhu Dayal Meena, Secretary KSB Commodore Rohtas Singh and other senior officials of the Ministry of Defence.