Panaji (Goa)  Goa (Right of Citizens to Time-Bound Delivery of Public Services) Act will be implemented fully from January 1, 2018, Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar announced today.

Speaking to reporters, Parrikar said that the public service guarantee act will be fully implemented in the government services from January 1, next year. He said directions are been given to the heads of department to create required workforce for the implementation.

Government has brought over 497 public services of 40 departments under the ambit of the Act, which was introduced in 2013. However, its implementation has not been full-fledged.

The department of public grievances has notified various public services which are mostly related to the common man in connection with various certificates, permissions, disbursement of claims and compensations, no objections certificates so on and so forth, which should be provided in a time bound manner.

Revenue department was apparently the first to launch the service in their functioning.

Further, Government has set target of March 31, 2018 to make all the government payments digitized.

“Under Digital India, it is our target to achieve 99.99 percent payment through digital mode,” Parrikar said.