Principal Secretary Housing and Urban Development Department J&K, Mr. Suresh Kumar, IAS officially dedicated the E-Governance Services to citizens of Jammu in a very simple and impressive function held at Deputy Commissioner Office in Jammu on 6th August 2012 in presence of media personals and native masses. Among those who were present in the function were Vice Chairman, JDA Mrs. Sarita Chouhan IAS, Deputy Commissioner of Jammu; Mr. Sanjeev Verma IAS, Municipal Commissioner of Jammu Mr. Kuldeep Khajuria, Technical Director & Projector Co-coordinator Mr. Jit Raj, Officers of Municipal Corporation and prominent Citizens of Jammu. Other NIC Officers present during the occasion were Mr. Harbaksh Singh, Project Associate, Mr. Rakesh Jamwal, Project Associate, Mr. Sanjay Gupta, District Informatics Officer Jammu, Mr. Sanjeev Kapoor and District Informatics Associate of Jammu. In a brief interaction with the citizens, Principal Secretary emphasized the need for such E-Governance models for the speedy delivery of services to the citizens like Birth Certificates, Building Permissions, and Public Grievances etc. Earlier, demonstration of the work flow based applications was provided to the officers of the various departments and the citizens present on the occasion and their queries were also re-addressed. Principal Secretary finally enjoined upon all the departments to adopt the system for easing the movement of citizens. Principal Secretary finally acknowledged the hard work of the entire NIC team at Jammu & Kashmir and Pune for their un-tiring efforts in bringing up such a transparent system for the benefit of common masses. With initiation of such a model, citizens can now get access to their birth record anywhere around the globe. Even in case of Building permission system citizens are updated about their movement of permission cases through SMS services, which is first of its kind in the state of J&K and also through WEB portal http://jkhudd.nic.in.