e-Sampark Facilities Online for Chandigarh
Chandigarh residents will soon get an option to pay their pending electricity and water bills online through the e- Sampark project.
Chandigarh residents will soon get an option to pay their pending electricity and water bills online through the e- Sampark project.
First of its kind in India, the Union ministry of communications and IT has decided to set up a certification facility for software security products,in Kolkata, according to BJ Srinath, senior director of the ministry’s Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (Cert-In). It would be an important initiative for state governments and various government institutions as it will create security zones for the various e-governance applications, thereby curbing cyber crimes in e-governance.
The Bombay Municipal Corporation (BMC) is planning to link all its hospitals and healthcare centres through a computerised network, in a move to boost its e-governance plan.
Renewing trade licences and getting a building permission will no more be as time consuming and tiring as it is now. For the slow-paced manual work of the Government Municipal Corporation will soon make way for complete e-governance.Under the National Mission Mode Programme (NMMP)
The tall project towards connecting all the panchayats across the country is in limbo, with the Panchayati Raj Ministry complaining that the Planning Commission and Finance Ministry are not too keen on allocating funds for it.
[This article was published in the October 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
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The Haryana State Electronics Development Corporation (Hartron) is planning to diversify its operations into newer areas and is scouting for business opportunities outside the state.
The Department of Information Technology (DIT) is planning to launch a high-pitched awareness campaign for its INR 230 billion e-Governance project. The DIT has earmarked INR 0.15 billion for the campaign, which is likely to be launched around November 2008.
The State Government of Kerala has taken a policy decision to implement paperless office system in six departments in the Secretariat. Under the policy, six departments are finance, information technology, public works, food and civil supplies, higher education and non-resident Keralites.
The Government of Madhya Pradesh is deploying state wide area networks to support e-Governance projects. Delhi based Tulip Telecom will deploy the SWAN infrastructure across the state.