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ICT for Urban & Rural Management: Emerging Trends & Innovations
ICT for Urban & Rural Management: Emerging Trends & Innovations
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By Elets News Network 09-July-2013
 When we talk about innovation, the first thing we ask that how much innovation do we need? Do we need innovation just for the sake of innovation, or are we genuinely concerned about helping the poor. So when we pick up IT solutions or systems for e-Governance, we have to look at things from the perspective of the user. Will the solution be useful for the user? The most innovative is not necessarily the most productive Arun Mehta
Principal Secretary, Power, Government of Jammu & Kashmir |
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 Today ICTs have tremendous potential. They can be used to bring efficiency into almost every human endeavour. For instance, these days they are using e-Governance ideas for having a better system of managing garbage in our urban areas. In case of NREGA, ICTs are helping to revolutionise the system of payments and worker attendance
Dr Rajesh Kumar  |
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 ICT has brought innumerable benefits, one of which is the mobile telephone. Mobiles are now owned by majority of the people in the country. ICTs have also led to the creation of several e-Governance apps through which a plethora of services have been created for people in rural and urban areas
Dr Govind
CEO , NIXI; Senior Director, Department of Electronics & IT, Ministry of Communications & IT, Govt of India |
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 J&K Pulse is the latest mobile based application introduced by the J&K government. It is available on the Android operating system. The main benefit of the project is that it can capture the details of any project that is being executed.The captured image is geo tagged in real time and is uploaded on to a secure central serverAjit Sahu
Deputy Commissioner, Jammu |
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 Gujarat Info Petro Ltd. (GIPL) is a state owned PSU under the Government of Gujarat. We are laying pipeline for Jammu & Kashmir government from Bhatinda to Jammu. The entire project is about `850 crore. GIPL has 12 years of experience in the industry
V K Sharma
Chief Executive Officer, Gujarat Info Petro Ltd |
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 IT has made many significant contributions to urban management and rural management. With holistic management through ICT, we can plan water supply, proper road connectivity, electricity supply and bring about improvements in the general quality of life
Iftikar Kakroo
Deputy General Manager, Jammu & Kashmir State Power Development Corporation Ltd |
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 Comtech has successfully accomplished two urban projects in the state of J&K. One of the projects we executed with the assistance of NIC; in this we digitised ten lakh birth and death certificates in 45 days of time. Second wasthe digitisation of electoral rollsduring municipal elections Sheikh Imtiaz Ahmad |
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 Arun Mehta addressing the session on “ICT for Urban & Rural Management: Emerging Trends & Innovations” |
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