In less than six months, the State Agency for services to citizens and social innovation at the president (ASAN Khidmet) served more than 250,000 citizens.
As the Chairman Inam Karimov told reporters during public hearings on the "State program for expansion of electronic services to government agencies and the development of "e-government" in 2013-2015," is made possible thanks not only to stationary units located in Nasimi and Khatai districts of the capital and in the city of Sumgait. In addition to them active in the areas are mobile buses serving the population of areas where there is currently no service centers ASAN Khidmet. "Our cell buses in the last month and a half served 16 thousand citizens of six regions of the country," he stressed.
According to him, until the end of the year all the settlements of Azerbaijan will be provided with services by the mobile service. And before September 1 in Yasamal district of Baku and Ganja will open two more stationary centers of ASAN Khidmet. Service structure in Ganja will be available not only to citizens but also people living nearby.
According to Karimov, the original version of "State Program expansion of electronic services to government agencies and the development of" e-government "in 2013-2015" has already been submitted to the Cabinet of Ministers.
The Services Center ASAN Khidmet established by the Head of State on July 13 last year. Through ASAN centers, nine government agencies - the Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Taxes, the State Committee for Property Affairs, State Customs Committee, the Immigration Service, the State Committee for Land and Cartography, State Social Protection Fund and the National Archives Administration - provide the population with 23 types of services. - 17D-
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