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All panchayats offices across Jharkhand will have e-Secretariat to encourage e-Governance mechanism at the lowest-level of democratic set up. To begin with, as many as 1,610 gram panchayats out of the total 4,565 will get computers with net connectivity. Secretariat of the rest gram panchayats will be computerised in two subsequent phases.

Computerisation work will commence by the end of this fiscal, when the building would be handed over to Gram Panchayats. Apart from serving as storehouse of database of each individual of the panchayats and documents related to development activities, the e-Secretariat will also be tasked to keep the records of work and payments made to the workers under various schemes of the MGNREGA going in the area.

Labour cost of the building of each panchayat secretariat is estimated to cost Rs 10 lakh. The fund for the purpose has been arranged from the MGNREGA scheme. Construction cost pegged around Rs 11 lakh, however, would be borne out by the state from the central assistance under the Backward Region Grant Fund (BRGF).