Gurgaon and Faridabad all set to become Green Cities. Gurgaon and Faridabad in Haryana have been selected for development as solar/green cities under a scheme of the Union Ministry for New and Renewable Energy. In Principle approval has already been received for Gurgaon, it would be received soon for Faridabad as well.
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…
“Change of strategy on the part of the Indian Government has played a major role in increasing the government spendings on technology”
[This article was published in the February 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
The state of Haryana is located in the northern part of India.
The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) set up its first ever Solar Powered IT Knowledge Center in rural Gurgaon, India. The initiative is towards nurturing and building capacities amongst village communities.
The Haryana state government has selected 3i-Infotech firm for the establishment of e-Disha Ekal Seva Kendra Project.
Oracle is ramping up its India operations in a big way. Now, it plans to add nine cities to its network. These will supplement the six development centres, which it has at Gurgaon, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Mumbai and Kolkata.
Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) is one of the few Government agencies providing high end professional services to the software industry.
