Taking Control
[This article was published in the March 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
[This article was published in the March 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
[This article was published in the March 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
There is a discernable amount of debate over the identification and categorisation of disabled people
The Government of India has taken nation-wide project to connect jails and district courts across the country via a tele-justice or video conferencing system. With the help of tele-justice, the accused can now be present in a court through a video link, established on ISDN lines, between the prison and the court.
R.L. Bhatia the Governor of Kerala (India) said that the government of Kerala would set up a State Data Centre (SDC) at Technopark.
The 11th National Conference on e-Governance was held from 7 to 8th February 2008, at Panchkula, Haryana, India. The conference was jointly organised by the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances and the Department of Information Technology, Government of India and the Department of Information Technology, Haryana. The theme of the conference was Integrated Citizen Services
Hughes India has signed an agreement with Comat Technologies to supply ten thousand broadband satellite terminals with its nationwide HughesNet satellite services and applications to be delivered at rural business centres across multiple states in India.
“To facilitate the users/citizens in the rural areas, steps are being taken to immediately start escorting services through CSCs for delivery of various services being given by district administration or line departments from the district headquarters, so that the villagers could avoid the harassment of traveling to district headquarters several times for services like getting an income certificate, caste certificate, domicile certificate and so forth”, informs V S Kundu, Managing Director, Haryana State Electronics Development Corporation Ltd., and Special Secretary, IT, Government of Haryana, to egov magazine.
“To promote e-Governance and improve delivery of citizen services using ICT state government has taken several initiatives, such as setting up of the State Wide Area Network and establishing Citizen Service Centers in more than 1100 villages. Besides this, government has directed all departments to prepare their IT plans with particular emphasis on automation of citizen services”, says Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Hon
[This article was published in the February 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Editorial
[This article was published in the February 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
India has achieved multifaceted socio-economic progress since Independence.