At New Delhi,India,on October 13th 2008,Tata Consultancy Services announced that it has a signed a deal with the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Government of India, for the Passport Automation Project – the largest mission-critical E-governance project valued at over Rs.10,000 million.
The pension record system in India will soon be digitised. India’s largest financial depository firm National Securities Depository (NSDL) will soon have a new record keeping system developed by Tata Consultancy Services (TCS).
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) announced the launch of a pilot project for Passport Seva Project under the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) in two Indian cities – Chandigarh and Bangalore.
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has won the first ever contract for processing Indian passport applications. This is a big move in terms of outsourcing government work.
In a move towards developing its e-Governance initiatives, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has engaged software company Wipro as consultant.
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) in a White Paper released stated that it will launch a five point plan for effective e-governance in the country. The road
Very soon the desire to have power bills in your e-mail, computer-generated voice mail on your phone sending alert about the last date of payment etc. can come true.
The Indian Railways is planning to introduce human resource management functions to an IT platform in the department. In this regard, the Indian Railways is adopting a new bidding process for interested IT firms.
The Employee’s Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) of India had started the project ‘reinventing EPF India’ seven years ago, that was to provide online access of Provident Fund accounts and services to about 4 crore citizens of the country. However after INR 2,500 million having been spent, the UPA government is all set to scrap the project and start all over again.
The Department of Telecom is planning to roll out second phase of the rural mobile project. In its second phase, DoT will roll out another 11,000 cellular towers across 2.4 lakh unconnected villages under the Universal Services Obligation fund.
