Four districts in Tamil Nadu and three districts in Bihar in India have been chosen for a pilot project by the Information Technology ministry to introduce e-Governance at the district level administration.
The Government of India has taken nation-wide project to connect jails and district courts across the country via a tele-justice or video conferencing system. With the help of tele-justice, the accused can now be present in a court through a video link, established on ISDN lines, between the prison and the court.
Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu have successfully implemented State-Wide Area Network (SWAN), the backbone infrastructure for rolling out the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP). All the three states have opted for the private-public partnership (PPP) mode for the project.
[This article was published in the February 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
china’s ICT ready to boom
The state government of Bihar, India is working on six major e-Governance initiatives worth INR 1.6 million with Tata Consultancy services (TCS).
Syedain Abbasi, an officer from the 1990 batch of Indian Administrative Service joined the Department of Information Technology in February 2004. Currently he is handling the preparation and monitoring implementation of the National e-Governance Plan.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has established 291 Village Resource Centres (VRCs) to provide integrated services, including tele-education, tele-medicine, natural resources information and skill development in rural India.
The Indian Railways is planning to expand their telemedicine network to 23 more places across India.
[This article was published in the November 2007 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
The delays in trials in courts has also taken menacing dimensions, leading to the overcrowding of prisons.
