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[<strong>This article was published in the August 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) </strong>]<br /><br />Government of India is planning to introduce e-Passports, also known as bio-metric passports.

Almost all sections of urban India have been touched by the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) revolution. The government’s target of 12 phones per hundred persons by 2007 has already been met. Mobile market in India is one of the fastest growing in the world. Basic broadband accounts are available for INR 225 a month. For a monthly rental of INR 300, a call can be made anywhere in India for about INR1 a minute. Recycled mobiles phones can cost less than INR1000. Several companies have promised new phones at that price. Entrepreneurs in cities and towns run cyber caf


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