Public services will reach all citizens via the Citizen App : Minister Gurung

January 16, Kathmandu: Minister for Communications and Information Technology Parbat Gurung has said that the government brought the “Citizen App” to ensure public services reach the hands of the citizens.

Opening the operation of the Citizen App at the ministry on Friday, he expressed the confidence that the new mobile app would be imperative to realize Digital Nepal.

The Citizen Apps is an effort to ensure service delivery to the citizens through an online system by making the citizen’s services simplified, accessible and speedy, the Minister added.

“The government is serious towards making all the official documents secured and to take the government services and information in every hand,” Minister Gurung, also the government spokesperson said.

Minister Gurung added that the app was unveiled after a thorough study of three years and it was considered as a national pride project.

On the occasion, Minister Gurung said that the app would be revised based on the citizen’s feedback.

Stating that the government wished to provide services on a hassle-free and transparent manner, Gurung added that the government was serious to ensure a robust and systematic citizen service and public service delivery round the clock.

Ministry’s secretary Hari Prasad Basyal argued that the app would be a milestone to meet the national target of ‘Prosperous Nepal, Happy Nepali’.

The app is being operated under the framework of Digital Nepal.