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.

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[This article was published in the July 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

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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

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[This article was published in the June 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Gujarat to Connect All Villages via Satellite

Gujarat (India) to Connect All Villages via Satellite

Gujarat will be the first state in India to provide high-speed connectivity through satellite-based data connections to all its 13,693 gram panchayats by July this year, enabling video, voice and data offerings in the areas of e-Governance, distance education, telemedicine, agriculture and interactive advisory and counselling services.

Facilitating e-Governance: The m-Way : Nivedan Sahan, Vice-President-Government and PSU Enterprises, Bharti Airtel Limited, India

“Last Mile connectivity is an important part of e-Governance initiatives. We need to have a cost effective but reliable connectivity for last mile solution in order to bring Government and other services at the door step of the rural citizens” says Nivedan Sahani, Vice-President-Government and PSU Enterprises, Bharti Airtel Limited to egov magazine

Gujarat (India) Celebrated with e-Connectivity Initiative

The Chief Minister of Gujarat, Narendra Modi announced e-Connectivity to all 590 village councils in Amreli district of Saurashtra region while celebrating Gujarat’s 49th foundation day.