India: BMC Ties up Sify to Provide e-Services
Civic Body, Bombay Municipality Corporation (BMC), India partnered with Sify to allow citizens of Mumbai to easy access to range of services, like payment of water and property tax, renewal of licences.
Villagers across 12 states in India to benefit from mobile banking
Thousands of villagers across 12 states are likely to get their social security pension and wages paid under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) scheme with the help of mobiles over the coming few months.
Facilitating Intelligent Information Infrastructure : Manoj Chugh, President, EMC, India and SAARC
Manoj Chugh is an industry veteran with over 25 years experience in the ICT industry. He joined EMC in 2003 and is responsible for driving EMC
e-Payments gaining ground in Coimbatore (India)
The Coimbatore Corporation of India (CCI) in Tamil Nadu is planning to introduce an online payment option for tax collection. The Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has partnered with couple of banks for electronic clearance service for collection of bill amounts.
IDRBT plans to roll out Biometric cards project in Andhra Pradesh, India
The Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT) is rolling out a pilot project at Warangal in Andhra Pradesh to offer biometric cards in rural region of India.
Government of West Bengal in India plans for more interactive e-governance platform
The West Bengal government in India is planning to make more interactive e-Governance platform by incorporating retail banking and agriculture advisory services through a network of kiosks till the gram panchayat level.
ROC services go online in Andhra Pradesh
The Ministry of Company Affairs, Andhra Pradesh (MCA), India, launched the MCA21 Project on April 20th, which provides all ROC services on the Internet. The services provided by the ROCs include registration of companies, receipt of the statutory returns filed by the companies and issue of copies of the records needed by them.
Women’s ICT-based Enterprises Workshop, 2-3 March 2006, Kolkata, India
[This article was published in the April 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
The falling cost of technology has generated self-employment opportunities for women in ICT-based enterprises, but great expectations need to be tempered with a realistic assessment of the country
