thiruvananthapuram to provide services electronically is the policy of the government declared kerala chief minister ak antony while launching a web portal a part of states egovernance initiative on thursday but in a state that breathes only hard party politics he hoped too much too soon it now appears a few hours after the inauguration of the portal kerala govin it receded into the dark recesses of the cyber space the portal an admirable step towards helping the masses get government service at the press of a button instead of travelling to the capital every time was supposed to link 64 government departments and is to give entry to 37 government websites after the intervention of information minister malik mohammed hassan who has taken it upon himself to make the egovernance a possibility the website did come back to life more disappointments were in store the portal was to give not just information on the government but more importantly it was to give all application forms generally wanted by the public but not one municipal corporation application form could be opened the file cannot be opened for quick review it may open but get locked by another application or you may not have access to it said one visitor to the portal ditto with public examination results the examinees are supposed to get their results on the site but all attempts to locate it proved futile technicians at the centre for imaging technology have termed it all teething trouble but the aides who worked hard in the ministers office for setting up the egovernance initiative are not so sure it is no less a political sabotage the same people once broke television sets and computers saying that computerisation would be a threat to labourers that psychology seems to be at work again said a senior official in the information ministry