Cabinet Secretary K.M. Chandrasekhar told reporters after inaugurating a conference on ‘Common Service Centres: The Change Agents’ recently that the government’s common service centre (CSCs) initiative will generate around 400,000 direct employment opportunities and as many as indirect jobs in rural India.
The indications are available in the IT Vision document of Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) which it has released towards the upcoming elections indicate that India is soon to emerge as revolutionary power in the world. The detailed Vision Document is available here as well as www.lkadvani.in.
`Earth Hour’ will be observed by India as well as by the rest of the world to save energy as well as environment on March 28. The people will be observing the Day by switching off all the lights and electrical appliances for an hour from 8.30 pm to 9.30 pm. This year India, especially Delhi and Mumbai will participate.
Special Multi-purpose cards for Indian Kashmir is being planned by authorities to help identify them as Indian nationals and to also check infiltration in the state. The Home ministry of India is providing the Multipurpose National Identity Cards or MNIC to all citizens of 15 years and above.
HCL Security is a new company being planned by HCL Infosystems with a special focus on security.
It is only in India that I have seen such a large scale, comprehensive, well thought out, national level plan for harnessing the capabilities of ICT in the area of governance”
POWERGRID has envisaged various endeavours for the year 2009: e-Procurement, Enterprise Asset Management system and Information Services”
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has released draft recommendations on an Approach to Rural Telephony
Government of India has sanctioned 3500 crores of rupees for the modernisation of the forces, out of which 500 plus crores are being used for computerisation and IT”
The Bengaluru International Airport is the first airport to introduce Digital TETRA for Trunk Mobile Radio Users for all airport stake holders to use within the airport for operational requirements”
