The Indian Railways is planning to introduce human resource management functions to an IT platform in the department. In this regard, the Indian Railways is adopting a new bidding process for interested IT firms.
Gujarat has received the Best e-Governed State Award for 2006-2007 year at the convention of 42nd Computer Society of India (CSI). Gujarat has received awards in four categories, best e-Governed state, best e-Governed Department (health and family welfare), best e-Governance G2B project for e-Procurement and also for VAT Informations System.
The Prime Minister of India, Manmohan Singh has asked state governments to pay attention to the urban governance reforms and modernisation of infrastructure in cities.
Now citizens of Bangalore, India can book their train tickets at any of the 16 BangaloreOne centres in the city by paying an extra INR 6 per ticket.
The e-Government foundation of India has developed an open source software to improve the management of municipal services.
Sam Pitroda, who introduced computerisation of railway ticketing, has now introduced mobile ticketing solution for Indian Railways.
Spanco Telesystems is going to set up call centres for Indian Railways in India. Spanco has bagged to set up, maintain and operate call centres for Indian Railways for 10 years. The company will set up four regional call centres in northern, eastern, western and southern part of the county
Nasscom is rolling out the plans of BPO sector in nationwide. Nasscom announced that the company will roll out the Nasscom Assessment of Competence (NAC) programme to evaluate talent of candidates for BPO sector.
Internet company Sify has announced its tie up with Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) to make online railway ticketing service available at over 3,400 iWay cybercafes across 154 cities, on cash payments.
The Computer Society of India (CSI) has received over 100 eGovernance projects from 21 States for evaluation based on the project features, sustainability and technology innovation.
