Information Technology Minister, India, Dayanidhi Maran unveiled 26 mission mode projects under the National e-Governance Plan, which would cost the Government around Rs 23,000 crore over the next five years to make its services more accessible to people electronically.
The Union Minister of Communications and Information Technology, India, Mr Dayanidhi Maran, has suggested to the Tamil Nadu government to set up an Information Technology Task Force to address issues related to the IT sector.
[This article was published in the August 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
The second Annual Convention of the National Alliance on Mission 2007 and the First Convocation of the Jamshedji Tata National Virtual Academy for Rural Prosperity (NVA) was held on July 10-12, in New Delhi, for ushering in ICT-led development in rural India.
The Minister for IT and Communications of India, Mr Dayanidhi Maran said at a national seminar on e-governance in municipalities that a shortcoming of the Indian IT industry was its failure to come up with world-class products. According priority to e-governance plan for improving service delivery to citizens and businesses, he has proposed enabling certification of products in e-governance domain, jointly with the Ministry of Urban Development.
