The official website of the state of Utah, Utah.gov, is the recipient of the 2008 Best of State award in the category of Community Development, due to its extensive services rendered, to over more than 1000 citizens of that state.
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) announced that the villagers in West Bengal from July onwards can submit their landline and mobile phone bills through Common Service Centres (CSCs) or Tathya Mitra Kendras set up by Srei Sahaj e-Village Limited across 14 districts of the state under the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP).
The Finance Minister of India P Chidambaram stated that biometric Permanent Account Number (PAN) cards will be introduced to the income tax payers of the country. In the first phase, these will be issued to new applicants.
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) in a White Paper released stated that it will launch a five point plan for effective e-governance in the country. The road
In order to monitor the public grievance system, the Government of Himachal Pradesh has developed a new web-based program called
As part of the e-governance initiatives, the Department of Publication, Ministry of Urban Development has launched e-Gazette with the help of NIC and NICSI which will maintain Gazette Notifications on a date-wise, month-wise, part-wise and subject-wise basis. These data belongs to the Central Government and the Government of NCT of Delhi. However, the printed version of the Gazette will continue to exist along with the e-version of the same.
Though India is considered to be a major IT destination, it would not be wrong to state that most of the IT boom or development has been confined to the major cities of Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Pune.
Pepsu Road Transport Corporation (PRTC) is planning to launch e-ticketing for the passengers travelling in buses in the Northern Indian state of Punjab.
A solution has been developed for financial inclusion by Finacle (banking product arm of software major Infosys Technologies) which will expand its scope and business possibilities.
Coal India Limited (CIL) has planned to procure about one-third of its equipment, consumables, spare parts and other stores, electronically in order to cut delays and enable efficiency.
