María Rivas highlighted in Muros the facilities of the Government to bring the Administration closer to all the municipalities of the province

He recalled that the General Administration of the State already allows more than 90% of the procedures with its departments to be carried out digitally. The information sessions were given by technical staff of the Subdelegation, who taught the neighborhood to carry out online procedures and to process the digital certificate. In its first edition, the program reached 63 municipalities out of the 67 in the province with less than 8,000 inhabitants, in which about 1,000 digital certificates were issued.

The subdelegate of the Government in A Coruña, María Rivas, highlighted in Muros the facilities offered by the Government to bring the Administration closer to all the municipalities of the province. He did so at the presentation of the program “The Administration Near You” at the House of Culture of Sorribos, Abelleira, in a briefing given by staff of the Government Subdelegation, previously formed.

Accompanied by the mayor, María Lago, the general secretary of the Federation of Mulleres Rurais Associations, FADEMUR, Rosa Arcos, and the general secretary of the Asociación de Mulleres Rurais Os Hórreo, de Muros, Concepción Sande, the subdelegate reported that the General State Administration offers the possibility of carrying out digitally more than 90% of the procedures and communications with its departments, from basic procedures such as benefits, tax payments, driving licences, public fees, requests for study grants to the study or telematics.

“The objective is that anyone, from mobile or computer, can easily access all the services offered by the Administration without having to travel to the large population centers,” explained Rivas, who said that in the visits, in addition to facilitating the issuance of the digital certificate, which serves as a key to the digital platforms of the Administration, the staff informs the processes to which it gives access and provides technical assistance to the attendees to carry out the necessary procedures in the sessions themselves.

In this regard, and given the usefulness of this service, the subdelegate called on the municipalities of the province of less than 8,000 inhabitants “not to miss this opportunity to improve the attention to their neighbors and to adhere to the protocol signed between the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP) and the Ministry of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory that allows the development of this program.

Second edition
María Rivas recalled that, in its first edition, "The Administration Near You" traveled 8,728 kilometers and reached 63 of the 67 municipalities with less than 8,000 inhabitants of the province, in which 981 digital certificates were issued.

In this second phase, the program has already reached localities such as Miño, Vilarmaior, Carnota or Vimianzo. To date, 55 of the 67 small municipalities of the province are registered, which collaborate with the Subdelegation of the Government in A Coruña ceding the spaces in which this initiative is developed.

Another of the novelties of this edition is that it is planned to extend it to other groups and thus advance in the approach of the Administration to entities such as merchants, self-employed, students, people at risk of social exclusion, unions, gerontological centers or agrarian collectives, among others.

María Rivas stressed the importance of the program, which “promotes equal opportunities between the urban and rural population and strengthens the presence of the State in the territory, in particular, in the less populated municipalities.”

Other services
The deputy delegate in A Coruña recalled that "The Administration Near You" is one of the numerous services of the Government to bring the Administration closer to the citizens, among which she also cited the mobile units for the issuance of the ID or the Police Documentation Update Points; the advice for the campaign of the Rent in the municipalities, or the travelling suitcase against gender violence, "all designed to improve the lives of the inhabitants of our province", she concluded.