For the best e-Governance initiatives in the country, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation will receive a gold medal. In all Gujarat will receive five awards for the best use of information and technology services.
In another e-Governance initiative by the Margao Municipal Council (MMC) in Goa, people will be encouraged to post their problems and seek solutions by sending their queries to the e-mail id: mmc@gmail.com…
In an e-Governance Survey for the year 2008-2009, Haryana has moved up to the 4th position from the 18th position in 2007-08. It has been ranked ahead of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Goa, Gujarat and Maharashtra…
Speaking in the Lok Sabha yesterday Minister of Communications and Information Technology, A. Raja informed that there are a total of 4.98 million Broadband subscribers in the country as on 31st October 2008. A list of State-wise number of Broadband subscribers is given below…
Revival of the Goa’s e-governance project at the Margao municipal council (MMC) seems evident. Goa chief minister Digambar Kamat has promised MMC chairperson Savio Coutinho that he would take up the matter with the National Informatics Centre (NIC) and work towards the revival of citizens’ facilitation centre…
All one hundred and eighty nine panchayats in Goa are computerised, thereby paving the way for e-governance at grass root level…
The Centre has released 478 crore rupees for providing connectivity to all Blocks/Tahsils/ District and State Headquarters under the “State Wide Area Network” (SWAN) scheme…
[This article was published in the October 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Raju Sharma, has been posted as Mission Director (Joint Director rank), in the Department of Science and Technology, Tech Info Forecasting
According to an assessment on ‘e-Governance initiatives’ undertaken by Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM), cities like Delhi, Chandigarh and Goa are rated best in terms of e-Network access but in terms of e-Network policies, Southern part of India is taking lead.
India Corruption Study- 2007 by Transparency International India and the Centre for Media Studies has proved that computerisation of front-end government services, e-Governance, citizen charters and social audits have controlled corruption involving upper and middle classes but have not helped the poor.
