Gujarat’s single-window welfare portal, Mari Yojana, is emerging as one of the state’s most visible e-governance platforms, bringing information and access for more than 680 government schemes and services from across departments onto one digital interface.
Developed under the state government led by Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, the portal is designed to take the paperwork and repeated office visits out of everyday citizen services, from certificates and pensions to scholarships and land records.
One platform, many departments
Mari Yojana (“My Scheme”) aggregates schemes from a wide spread of departments, including Education, Social Justice and Empowerment, Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Health, Sports, Women and Child Development, Rural Development, Revenue, local self-government and Employment. Citizens can look up eligibility and required documents, apply online and track the status of their requests without visiting a government office.
Services available through the ecosystem include birth and death certificates, domicile and caste certificates, income and senior citizen certificates, widow and old-age pensions, and scholarships.
Land records and revenue services go online
The portal works alongside Gujarat’s established revenue platforms. AnyROR lets citizens pull 7/12 land record extracts at any time, while the Integrated Online Revenue Applications (iORA) system handles revenue applications such as succession and related certificates online. Beneficiaries quoted by news agency IANS on Monday said these services had sharply reduced queues and time spent at taluka offices.
Gandhinagar Executive Magistrate and Mamlatdar M D Gohel described the portal as a single platform where information on around 680 schemes can be accessed in one click, adding that the aim is to make government processes simpler, more transparent and time-efficient.
Reaching remote villages
Officials say the model is gaining traction for its penetration into remote and far-flung villages, where travelling to district or taluka headquarters for a certificate or pension query has traditionally meant lost wages and multiple trips. Previously, applicants often spent considerable time just finding out which documents were needed and following up on the status of an application.
Why it matters
Scheme discovery remains one of the biggest gaps in welfare delivery: many eligible citizens never apply because they do not know a benefit exists or how to claim it. By combining discovery, application and tracking in a single window, and linking it with digitised land and revenue records, Gujarat is pushing towards a “whole-of-government” citizen interface. The next test for such platforms will be proactive, data-driven delivery, where eligible residents are identified and served without having to apply at all.