Q & A : Sanjay Tyagi, Director, STPI Mohali, India
Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) is one of the few Government agencies providing high end professional services to the software industry.
More rural specific ICT applications for health needed for development : Dr. Sunil Mehra, MAMTA-HIMC
More rural specific ICT applications for health needed for development
A Profile Of Sarai
[This article was published in the November 2004 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
The Sarai initiative interprets this sense of the word
e-Governance in Municipalities
To help in making the municipal administration more transparent, accountable and responsive a two day National Seminar on e-Governance in Municipalities began on 2nd in Delhi, India.
Today onwards land records of Delhi are computerised
Computerised land records and web portal of districts of Delhi is inaugrated by the Hon’ble Chief Minister of Delhi Smt. Sheila Dikshit today. This is a combined project of Delhi Government, National Informatics centre and Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India.
Another government website not updated
Launched by the Delhi Chief Minister, Sheila Dikshit, amid much fanfare in February 2003, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) website – http://www.mcdonline.gov.in – shows stale information. A large amount of people’s money goes to the ECIL-SARK consortium that is responsible for maintaining the website. And still the website is outdated and poorly maintained. A lot of hue and cry was raised over it recently in its standing committee meeting.
Hi-tech police post
Greater Noida, an upcoming suburb of Delhi, India will have better security as a hi-tech police staion opened up last week.
Mumbai and Chennai, new Railway e-ticket hubs
India Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Limited (IRCTC) is planning to start e-ticketing in Mumbai and Chennai soon looking at the immense success of the e-ticket services from New Delhi. At present reserved tickets which are booked through internet are being printed and delivered only from New Delhi. The process takes 3-4 days to reach the prospective passengers. In order to curtail the delay to deliver printed tickets to passengers, the IRCTC has now planned to install hub stations in Chennai and Mumbai for printing tickets to cater to the needs of the South and West Zone passengers respectively.
