Bharti Airtel Wins Award for the Gujarat e-GRAM project
Bharti Airtel, has been awarded the ‘Best Project Management’ for the Gujarat e-GRAM project at the World Communication Awards 2008…
India has 4.98 Million Wireless Internet Subscribers
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…
Gujarat’s e-Governance Project Gets Award From NASSCOM
NASSCOM awarded the Gujarat’s Value Added Tax(VAT) system as the best e-Gvernance initiative. Under this system the government had introduced e-filing of returns, e-payment, e-registration and e-refund besides other facilities…
Gujarat Catching up with e-Governance
Gujarat, under chief minister Narendra Modi, is now trying hard to catch up with IT initiatives. With Tata’s Nano plant …
Current Status on State Wide Area Network
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…
1 Lakh Common Service Centres by July 2009
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.
IT @ HOSPITAL Survey 2008, West India
[This article was published in the September 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Setting Quality Standards in Schools : Meera Balachandran, The Education Quality Foundation of India, India
The Education Quality Foundation of India was founded in 2007 by Dr Anjlee Prakash with an aim to set quality standards in schools and help them achieve better levels of quality in terms of infrastructure, teaching methods, content etc.
e-Governance not Beneficial for the Poor in India: Survey
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.
Road Ahead – Health Insurance Summit
[This article was published in the July 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Health insurance in India is increasingly getting refined and redefined, with a population of more than a billion people
