The Chief Commissioner of the Income tax department, Rajiva Deva inaugurated the help centre of e-filing of income tax return on November 4, 2006. According to Deva, now people can file their income tax returns on the internet also.
[This article was published in the November 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Developing a common low cost electronic healthcare records (EHCR) system in India involves great challenge.
Bihar Government has approved the proposal of e-governance in its all 8,479 panchayats at a cost of Rs.252 million. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and the Bihar State Electronics Development Corporation have designed the e-governance software project.
The Bihar government is finally taking steps to catch up with other developed states by equipping all of their 26 ministers with sophisticated laptop computers under the national e-Governance plan of the Central government.
The growing use of IT in government departments of India is the fact that Government of India (GoI) has acknowledged the potential of IT and started looking at it as a component of progress.
In a bid to make e-Governance a reality, Bihar is all set to take a big leap towards e-Governance to adopt it as a state policy on the advice of President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.
The state cabinet of Bihar, India, adopted e-Governance as a state policy to cover the entire state and district administrations for better and transparent flow of information from the government level down to the block administration.
[This article was published in the March 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
APWKomitel (Associations of Community Internet Centre), work closely with various ICT and Police Departments in Indonesia aspiring to develop a good Internet policy for both (cybercafe) in urban areas and (telecentres) in rural areas.
Clearly, the State of Bihar is in the throes of adopting e-Governance soon. With the new Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, the State has again become hopeful to see things moving at a fast pace. Currently, there is not much to showcase but Bihar would certainly like to emulate the most popular project e-Seva, which is easy to replicate, says Sanjeev Kumar Sinha, Secretary, Science & Technology, Government of Bihar, to Anuradha Dhar from egov.
[This article was published in the February 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
At a time when India is in the grip of an IT revolution with most of the States in the country taking a plunge and effectively moving towards e-Governance, the State of Bihar simply does not want to lag behind.
