The Government of Jammu and Kashmir (J& K) has set up an exclusive e-Governance Agency called the Jammu and Kashmir e-Governance Agency (JaKeGA), with an empowered Board of Governors, headed by the State Chief Secretary.
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.
On 23rd January 2009, Narendra Modi, Chief Minister of Gujarat formally launched the e-Gram Vishwagram Project, offering broadband connectivity to all 13693 Gram Panchayats of the state from the Haripura village.
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Department of Information Technology, Government of National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi is conducting a Training Programme in e-Procurement which will be held on every Tuesday and Friday between 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.
[This article was published in the February 2009 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Gujarat will soon be getting reminders on mobile for paying professional or property taxes.
Srei Sahaj has been mandated to roll out 5,565 Common Service Centres (CSCs) in Bihar. The company is an ICT based infrastructure provider in rural India in the area of e-Governance services, a subsidiary of Srei Infrastructure Finance Limited.
Sun Microsystems launched a Centre for Excellence in e-Governance in IIT Delhi campus recently.
[This article was published in the February 2009 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
The beginning of 2009 has been significant, yet full of extremes in the e-Governance and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) arena. On one side, US
