National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM) is taking another initiative towards creating more awareness on Cyber crimes. Nasscom is talking with the Maharashtra director of prosecution to train 40 prosecutors every month.
Khuda Jassu village of Chandigarh, India has received its first rural e-Governance facilitation centre. The centre named e-Gram Sampark provides all facilities to villagers from depositing bills to collecting pensions.
Union Government
The consultant, Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC) has presented a roadmap for e-Governance for the UT administration in a meeting of e-Governance Implementation Committee held on 12 December in Chandigarh, India.
Prime Minister of India Mr. Manmohan Singh has advised states to lay special focus on improving the quality of governance by promoting e-Governance.
The State Government of Haryana, India, is planning to deploy a statewide area network entitled ADHAAR that will connect the state headquarter office at Chandigarh to all the district head quarters at the Block/ Sub-Division/ Tehsil/ Sub- Tehsil levels to support all its e-Governance initiatives.
The ‘e-Revolution’ 2006 curtain raiser on July 19, 2006 focused on the roll out plan of the IT roadmap in Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh in India.
The states of Punjab and Haryana, and the Union Territory of Chandigarh are hosting an International IT Conclave named
Chandigarh, India, will host the international IT event, e-Revolution 2006, the second mega IT event, at Hotel Taj, Chandigarh, on 19-21 July.
[This article was published in the August 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
e-Revolution 2005 held in the picturesque city of Chandigarh on July 15 and 16 was a showcase of immensely untapped potential of the union territory of Chandigarh, along with states of Punjab and Haryana, to emerge as future IT hotspots of India.
