Interviews
Network that Reaches Every Village : Lt. Col. H. S Bedi, Tulip IT Services Ltd
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?
Inclusive Access to Government Services : Nripjit Chawla, eGovServices
“eGovServices has become the largest CSC operator in the country (and perhaps in the world).
Watching India with Interest! : Val
Alcatel-Lucent is a very big telecom solutions provider in the world.
Leader
Nirmala Shankaran
Co-Founder, Hey Math! talks about a different curriculum which is intended to provide students access to the best teaching methodology by collaborating with high performing Mathematics system
Intellectual Capital Needs Actual Investing : N K Sinha, Joint Secretary, Bureau of Distance Learning and Scholorships, Government of India
Standardisation of content is our challenge. It has to be in the Wiki kind of approach. Leave it on the web in a tentative format, and let all the experts do the value addition till it is stabilised. The community of intellectuals should take up the responsibility
Impacting Agriculture : N K Das, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture
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.
A Leap Forward to e-Readiness – e-Governance Scenario in Haryana : V S Kundu,, Managing Director, Haryana State Electronics Development Corporation Ltd.
“To facilitate the users/citizens in the rural areas, steps are being taken to immediately start escorting services through CSCs for delivery of various services being given by district administration or line departments from the district headquarters, so that the villagers could avoid the harassment of traveling to district headquarters several times for services like getting an income certificate, caste certificate, domicile certificate and so forth”, informs V S Kundu, Managing Director, Haryana State Electronics Development Corporation Ltd., and Special Secretary, IT, Government of Haryana, to egov magazine.
