Government of Andhra Pradesh launches ePragati Core Platform to realize the vision of ‘One Government

Partners with EY to power this digital transformation journey and manifest the Government’s vision of the future

Government of Andhra Pradesh (“GoAP”) today launched the ePragati Core Platform, under the aegis of the Hon’ble Chief Minister, Sri N Chandrababu Naidu Garu, to enhance customer experience and provide integrated services to its citizens. This forward-looking digital initiative will help connect the citizen to 34 departments, 336 autonomous organisations and 745+ services. GoAP embarks on this digital transformational journey partnering with EY, a global leader in advisory, assurance, tax and transaction advisory services.

Through this ambitious project, GoAP intends to realize the vision of ‘Sunrise AP 2022’ by providing integrated services to citizens through a common ePragati portal. The ePragati authority will achieve the goals of the project by supporting the seven development missions launched in the areas of e-Governance, Social Empowerment, Skill Development, Urban Development, Infrastructure, Industrial Development and the Services sector.

GoAP has been making pioneering efforts to develop and promote the state of Andhra Pradesh as an innovation society of global repute. The focus remains on enhancing the quality of life of its citizens through high-quality education and healthcare, increased productivity in agriculture and allied activities, creation of employment by promoting electronics and information technology and most importantly providing good governance.

ePragati Core Platform aims to deliver a proven and scalable technological foundation for digital transformation of Government to Citizen, Government to Business, and Government to Government services, by enabling departments and organizations to streamline operations, deliver consistent service and modernize operations without interruptions. A platform approach to digital government, organized around citizen needs is most effective. ePragati’s rapid application development platform with in-built libraries, will reduce the application development time. The platform aims to save significant time, optimize costs and standardize the experience of the citizen on the applications.

As a part of this engagement, EY has set up a Centre of Excellence (“COE”) for helping develop a robust body of knowledge, executing government enterprise architecture and technology planning, government process re-engineering, developing the Core Platform and application development for delivery of citizen centric services by all the departments of GoAP.

Pankaj Dhandharia, Partner and Markets Leader, EY India stated, “Today, digital is at the heart of government transformation in India. As digital is increasingly ubiquitous in the economy and society, forward-thinking governments are driving the policy agenda through intelligent use of technology. EY is proud to associate with Government of Andhra Pradesh which has a bold vision of the future and has deployed a multitude of projects that are transforming public services for the better, delivering greater efficiencies for both the government and citizen alike. EY has garnered its deep insights and experience in working with governments across the world in their transformation journeys and worked in tandem with GoAP in offering a seamless service delivery experience with greater transparency and citizen involvement in this progressive and game-changing initiative.”

EY, through its dedicated Government Advisory Services team, domain knowledge and thought leadership has served multiple Governments, both at the Centre and State. EY brings in extensive Government domain understanding and citizen experience enhancement by leveraging Digital technologies for better Citizen Service Delivery. EY also has extensive experience of working on large-scale transformation projects and is known for its outcome orientation. Globally, EY provides services to over 1,000 Governmental units world-wide, including state and local Governments, their departments, municipalities, authorities, public-sector enterprises.