“SDC being a critical infrastructure requiring uptime of the highest order, selection of right technology, monitoring, operation/management and conformance to the security and data privacy will be major issues to be addressed,” says S P Singh, Senior Director, Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Information and Communication Technology.
“We were predominantly a wire line company when we initially started, now we have successfully diversified ourselves into the wireless space. We are also actively thinking in terms of joint ventures.” tells R.K. Upadhyay, Chairman and Managing Director, Telecommunication Consultants India Limited (TCIL) (A Government of India Enterprise), to egov magazine
[This article was published in the May 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
The 5th National Summit Serving the Common Man Through e-Governance: Sharing of Experience, the premiere annual event of the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) on e-Governance in India was successfully organised by ASSOCHAM in alliance with the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India and Centre for e-Governance on 18th April 2008 at New Delhi
“We want that within the government, the competence and the capacity is built for taking up e-Governance by themselves”, says S R Das, e-Governance Group, Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India
“What is different in India is that the government is taking online services to the villages and spending on taking Internet to rural India, unlike the US where the corporates do this”, says Hemal Patel, CEO, Elitecore Technologies
The government of India plans to provide rural connectivity across the country. Tulip is an IT infrastructure and connectivity provider. How is Tulip set to utilise this opportunity?
Our vision is to make Coal India the most admired company in the energy sector in India. We want to continuously adopt the best practices from all around the world- from the mine to the market, to evolve into a world class energy solution company.
[This article was published in the March 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu have successfully implemented State-Wide Area Network (SWAN), the backbone infrastructure for rolling out the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP). All the three states have opted for the private-public partnership (PPP) mode for the project.
The National Agriculture Policy lays emphasis on the use of Information Technology for achieving a more rapid development of Agriculture in India. In pursuance thereof, the Department of Agriculture and Cooperation(DAC) has taken up an initiative to prepare National e-Governance Plan in Agriculture (NeGP-A) with a view to promote focused and integrated implementation of
e-Governance activities in Agriculture. N K Das, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture speaks to egov magazine about the various ICT programmes being implemented under the aegis of the Department of Agriculture and Cooperation.
