In yet another move towards e-Governance initiatives, the IT Department of Haryana Government, India, has decided to install computers with Internet facilities in all the 108 ‘mandis’ and 25 sub-centres of the agricultural marketing board of the state.
The Ministry of Transport, Egypt has launched a online ticket booking service in collaboration with the Ministry of State for Administrative Development. The IT Department will maintain the service at the Egyptian National Railways Authority and the National Commercial Bank.
[This article was published in the August 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
IT enabled MCD serves as a catalyst for enabling more effective governance by enhancing efficiency, providing transparency, allowing for citizen
The Lakhswadeep Administration has formed a society which would enhance the IT Department to implement its policy and help in providing effective and citizen friendly government interfaces as part of its e-Governance initiatives.
“The Kerala e-Governance Strategy 2008 is in furtherance of the intentions expressed in the IT Policy 2007 and proposes to provide a more definitive framework for leading Kerala into an era of ICT-enabled citizen friendly efficient and effective governance”
Small states like Haryana, Jharkhand and West Bengal are ready to roll out of the Centre initiative of National e-Governance Plan (NeGP), while the more developed states like Maharashtra and Karnataka are lagging behind in implementing the NeGP plan in India.
A new IT policy and promotion of satellite towns with necessary social inputs are under consideration in Tamil Nadu.
The states of Punjab and Haryana, and the Union Territory of Chandigarh are hosting an International IT Conclave named
[This article was published in the November 2005 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Citizens have high hopes from state IT secretaries of India and the job is not less challenging. IT secretaries from 10 states speak their mind at Conflux 2005.
