Vijayawada, Jan 27 : Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy has launched AP Seva Portal 2.0 (Citizen Service Portal) at the camp office here Today  in order to deliver better services for the people. Speaking on the occasion, he said that all the officials right from village/ward secretariats to higher authorities will be using AP Seva Portal, a digitalised platform to provide citizen services in a transparent manner. Mr Reddy said that this initiative will take governance much closer to the people where even those in remote villages can also avail citizen services right from their doorstep, without running from pillar to post. The Chief Minister said that the public can track the status of their application without any hassles. Also, SMS alerts on the status of the application will be sent to the applicants and the portal is also enabled with payment gateways to access paid services. He stated that the new updated portal has over 30 services of Revenue and Land Administration, 25 services of Municipal Administration, 6 services of Civil Supplies, 3 services of Rural Development and over 53 services of Energy departments. The Chief Minister said that Village/ward secretariat services along with a volunteer system was brought to take the governance to the village level, where almost 4 lakh people are part of the delivery mechanism and offer over 540 services directly to the people. Since January 6, 2020, as many as 3.46 crore government services have been provided to the public through village/ward secretariats. Mr Reddy said that with the latest technology, AP Seva Portal was brought, where the applicant can know the details of their application and would also receive phone alerts related to the service sought. All the applications can be approved online and the officials can also provide certificates and documents online with digital signature. Further, he said that the applicants can avail the services from any secretariat across the state. (UNI)