The residents of Gaya can finally afford to give serpentine queues a miss and enjoy public services at a computerised centre as part of the government’s e-district project.

Assembly Speaker Uday Narain Choudhary inaugurated the e-district project on Sunday at a function organised at Hasrat Mohani auditorium in the town.

With this, Gaya became the fourth district, after Auran-gabad, Madhubani and Nala-nda, in the state to be in the web of the scheme to be implemented under the National e-Governance Project.

Sources said the project aims at computerisation of all public utility services at the district level.

As part of the e-district project, government to citizen services have been divided into five categories — certificates, social security, public complaints, public distribution system and land revenue. The fee for each service has been fixed — ranging between Rs 3 and Rs 35.

Officials associated with the project said the residents would have to visit Vasudha Kendras in their respective villages and deposit the fee to avail service within a stipulated time.

“Everything will be done through the IT system in the e-district project. The applicants will not have to pay repeated visits to the block, sub-divisional or the district offices or wait for long hours in queues,” an official said.

Addressing the gathering, the Speaker emphasised on the importance of making the project popular and the general people, particularly those living in villages, aware of the facility.

Information technology minister Shahid Ali Khan and Gaya district magistrate Bandana Preyashi attended the programme among others.