[This article was published in the November 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Minister of Communications & Information Technology, Jyotiraditya M. Scindia, responding to an open question in the Lok Sabha on 21st October 2008
The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&B) has launched its first-ever community radio in collaboration with an NGO…
At the Seventh Round Table of the State Ministers of Panchayati Raj held in Jaipur in December,2004, it was resolved that …
According to the Ministry of Communications & Information Technology The major Schemes being implemented by the Department of Information Technology are…
The portal will help converting the data locally into useful information, management indicators, trends etc which could be displayed graphically in the reports. The new system envisages enhancing the information flow at various levels and providing useful and timely inputs for programme development, monitoring and midcourse interventions in the policies.
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)
Passport Seva Project- The good news for ‘aam janta’ is that apart from the information of the progress of the passprt applications on web they would also be receiving alerts on their mobile numbers, that have been provided during filling of application, about the status of their application.
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 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.
Government plans to establish One Lakh Common Service Centres (CSCs) in 600,000 villages,to provide IT enabled services to the people in the rural areas.Out of which 18,000 CSCs have already been set up.The CSC roll out is part of Department of Information technology’s steps to support Infrastructure under the National E-Governance Plan for enabling anytime, anywhere delivery of government services. Department of Information Technology would provide calibrated support through policy interventions and appropriate financial support to create the basic infrastructure for these 100,000 proposed CSCs. All these CSCs are scheduled to be operational by July next year.
