Current Status on State Wide Area Network

The Centre has released 478 crore rupees for providing connectivity to all Blocks/Tahsils/ District and State Headquarters under the “State Wide Area Network” (SWAN) scheme…

National ID Cards

Just in time before general elections, the Centre is serious about completing the pilot project of issuing multi-purpose national identity cards (MNICs) to citizens by March 2009.

1 Lakh Common Service Centres by July 2009

Government plans to establish One Lakh Common Service Centres (CSCs) in 600,000 villages,to provide IT enabled services to the people in the rural areas.Out of which 18,000 CSCs have already been set up.The CSC roll out is part of Department of Information technology’s steps to support Infrastructure under the National E-Governance Plan for enabling anytime, anywhere delivery of government services. Department of Information Technology would provide calibrated support through policy interventions and appropriate financial support to create the basic infrastructure for these 100,000 proposed CSCs. All these CSCs are scheduled to be operational by July next year.

Executive Movement

[This article was published in the October 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Raju Sharma, has been posted as Mission Director (Joint Director rank), in the Department of Science and Technology, Tech Info Forecasting

Tripura Hires PwC to Audit its SWAN, Makes it India’s First Third Party Auditor of the Project

PwC (Price waterhouse Coopers) has become the third party audit (TPA) agency for Tripura SWAN (State Wide Area Network) for a period of five years. Selected by a limited tender process by Department of Information Technology (DIT), they have become India’s first third party auditor for the project.

e-Governance not Beneficial for the Poor in India: Survey

India Corruption Study- 2007 by Transparency International India and the Centre for Media Studies has proved that computerisation of front-end government services, e-Governance, citizen charters and social audits have controlled corruption involving upper and middle classes but have not helped the poor.

India Formulating a National Policy on ICT in School Education

[This article was published in the July 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

How do teachers, administrators and policy makers feel about their experiences with technology?

Building Connections Around the World : R.K. Upadhyay, Chairman and Managing Director-Telecom Consultants India Limited (TCIL), India

“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

Implementation of ICT in Schools Under BOOT

[This article was published in the March 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) provides an opportunity for private sector participation in financing, designing, construction, operation & maintenance

Swan Projects Completed in Three States

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.