Last mile connectivity is important in e-Gov : Dhirendra Pratap Singh

One of the giants of the Indian telecom industry, Tata Teleservices has been actively involved in a number of projects being executed under the National eGovernance Plan (NeGP). The company is also working on e-governance projects with a number of state governments outside of the NeGP as well.
In this freewheeling interview with Dr Ravi Gupta and Dhirendra Pratap Singh, the Vice President and Business Head of Tata Teleservices shares his perspectives on issues such as the importance of last mile connectivity, Public Private Partnerships, mGovernance and Panchyati Raj

CSCs: Bridging the Gap

[This article was published in the September 2011 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

By Abhishek Singh,
Director-eGovernance, DIT, MCIT

Monitoring-Any Time, Anywhere

[This article was published in the September 2011 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

By Gagan Verma, National Head, Government business, POLYCOM

Bringing Accountability for e-Governance

[This article was published in the July 2011 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Once the new legislation on e-Services for public is passed, all government departments will have to issue a framework within six months on services to be digitised and formats to be adopted, along with a cut-off date for completing the exercise

PPP Should be Taken to Next Level

[This article was published in the June 2011 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Governments should select vendors on a more transparent basis rather than a price-based approach

Becoming of an IT Era

[This article was published in the June 2011 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

In the coming years, India will have more younger population than any other country, thus literacy rate will be encouraging. Tendency towards ICT to avail Government services will, hence increase

NeGP Update

[This article was published in the May 2011 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

The Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Government of India, has presented a policy drat for mobile governance

Haryana Creating Resident Database for UID

The Haryana government is creating a database of all the residents in the state. The database is being created under the Unique Identification (UID) project of the central government which is in its initial stages of implementation in the state.

It’s time for a beta

[This article was published in the January 2011 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

All the e-Governance cogs have been put up; now the testing phase can

End of the pillar-to-post runs

[This article was published in the December 2010 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

One-window citizen services can be a reality