{"id":26114,"date":"2016-04-12T03:47:35","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T22:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=26114"},"modified":"2016-04-12T10:07:30","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T04:37:30","slug":"friends-janasevana-kendras-under-heavy-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/friends-janasevana-kendras-under-heavy-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Friends Janasevana Kendras under heavy crisis!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friends Janasevana Kendras, one of the best service organizations for the public to pay utility bills and other essentials are struggling hard to survive due to the shortage of staff, competition from e-governance centers and lack of necessary fund. The diminution in public participation and support is another imperative reason for the crisis.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Friends Janasevana Kendras\u00a0 are struggling hard to survive due to the shortage of staff and lack of necessary fund.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The centers which were established in all districts rose to prominence in a short span of time. 40.28 lakh transactions were recorded in the year 2006-07, which descended to<strong> 20.69 lakh<\/strong> transactions by the year 2013-14. Tough competition from Akshaya centres and other e-governance services has been the cited as the cause for the decline in number of transactions. Setting up of fast track counters by the motor vehicles department to handle their services has been another setback for them.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The centers needed good amount of money for the system administration, hardware maintenance and other services.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The centers needed good amount of money for the system administration, hardware maintenance and other services. With the withdrawal of free supply of water and electricity to the centers, they had become more dependants of government funds. Now, with the shortage of staff, the centers are finding hard to serve. An Assembly committee has recommended winding up the services; the government is yet to take the decision on that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends Janasevana Kendras, one of the best service organizations for the public to pay utility bills and other essentials are struggling hard to survive due to the shortage of staff, competition from e-governance centers and lack of necessary fund. The diminution in public participation and support is another imperative reason for the crisis. Friends Janasevana [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}