The e-procurement system of the railways was inaugurated recently. The e-procurement platform to East Coast Railway (ECoR) has been provided by Centre for Railway Information System (CRIS). The east coast railway stores department purchases around INR 750 crore materials every year.
Microsoft company showcased for the first time its beta version of Windows 7 in Hindi, a step aimed towards enabling Indian users to compute using various Indian languages. The company launched its Language Interface Packs (LIPs) in twelve Indian languages for use in the Windows environment and Microsoft Office.
Gupteshwar Singh of Bankat village, a farmer from Bihar, with an average annual income of merely INR 60,000, was ordered to pay a sum of INR 1 crore to know how Public Distribution System dealers distributed kerosene oil and food articles over the past few years.
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), has opened the market for private players to provide calling cards for domestic and international calling, through its recommendations.
Omar Abdullah’s new government in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) has promised within the arena of e-Governance to provide for a legislation to strengthen the Right to Information (RTI) Act in the state. A call centre towards the same is being planned.
Government of India is all set to make available low-cost computers at the rate of INR 500 within six months. Technology for these computers have been developed by IISC, Bangalore and IIT Madras.
Kolkata’s project on e-auction of tea has failed to take-off due technical glitches, lack of space and difficulty in allowing proxy bidders. The e-auction of tea in Kolkata which was to start from January 27, 2009, was carried out but only manually on January 27 and 28, 2009.
Madhya Pradesh (MP) Forest Department has bagged the National e- Governance silver medal for its Fire Alert and Message System (FAMS). The award will be given away at the 12th National Conference on e- Governance in Goa on February 12, 2009, by the Information and Technology Department of Government of India.
Under the pilot project launched by Kerala Government, 38 traffic rule offenders landed in police net after the city police have started using the Blackberry mobile phones. Three complimentary Blackberry handsets had been handed over to the police personnel recently.
Punjab Agricultural Marketing Board is on its way to become the first organisation in Punjab to implement the Internet based tendering. Punjab Agricultural Marketing Board has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with state-run Indian Telephone Industries Limited for implementing e-Tendering.
