Besides deposition of house tax, water tax, electricity and telephone bills, department of IT and Electronics in Uttar Pradesh is mulling over a proposal to make available an e-Governance facility through which students school fee can be deposited at the nearest e-suvidha counter.
The online complaint registration on the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) e-governance website lies unused since February 9, 2003. Other than a few stray cases in the monsoon section the citizens there do not think its a popular method of ensuring that their complaints are followed up.
Ending speculations, the Appointment Committee of Cabinet finalised the name of JS Sarma, member of Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT), as chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).
Without giving much heed to the TRAI’s proposal of setting up of an Internet registry by National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI), a public-private partnership body, the DOT is to set up a National Internet Registry to create more Web addresses as the country’s existing resources will run out of capacity in one year.
Kerala is all set to start an Integrated Government Service Gateway(IGSG), a web-based Geographical Information System(GIS).
In order to to resolve the critical issue of additional spectrum allocation, the Union Government of India has set up a panel, which is submitting their report in the next 10 days. The panel is shifted from the current subscriber based spectrum allocation to auction mode allocation.
Local Wimax service provider has partnered with Samsung to provide to implement its WiMax network across the country over the next five years. However, it will take at least 14 months before the high-speed mobile broadband service from YTL’s subsidiary, YTL e-Solutions, is expected to be rolled out nationwide in July 2010.
The city police of Hyderabad has launched a new dedicated website on which traffic jam alerts will be updated regularly. The website called www.htp.gov.in through which people can lodge complaints pertaining to traffic using the `Traffic Help Desk’ link and also check the status of the complaint. The website also offers services like checking the e-challan status and data pertaining to accidents.
Cisco, and the County of San Francisco, have collaborated to start a pilot project called Urban EcoMap, that will educate people about climate change and to spur a shift to climate-friendly social behavior in cities.
