eChhawani Portal

The eChhwani portal is an online portal about the 62 cantonment boards in the country. The portal provides information about the cantonment boards.

About eChhwani portal

• The citizens can get information about the cantonment boards in India through the eChhwani portal.
• The portal provides the day-to-day activities of the cantonment board.
• It provides the civic services offered by different Cantonment boards.
• The residents using the portal will get 2% rebates for booking halls, water tanker bookings, sewerage connection and other 78 services.

Benefits

• The portal helps to improve the citizen interaction with the cantonment boards.
• It makes the employees of Cantonment board responsive to the public needs in a transparent way
• The portal saves the botheration of visiting the Cantonment board in person
• The portal also provides concession for using online facilities
• It enables ease of services to the Cantonment residents. There are more than twenty lakh people living in 62 cantonment boards.

Services offered by the eChhwani portal

The portal provides information, birth and death certificates, lease renewal, public grievances, hospital OPD registration and also water and sewerage connection facility.

Significance of the portal

The Cantonment Board is an administrative body operating under Ministry of Defence. The cantonment boards have certain mandatory duties. They are water supply, primary education, sanitation, street lighting, etc. However, the board cannot levy tax for its services. The services offered by these boards are not known to the citizens. The portal is a good platform for the common man to learn about such services.