The Minister of State for Urban Development, Saugata Roy informed the Lok Sabha that the Ministry of Urban Development is running a pilot scheme for Infrastructure Development in satellite town around mega-cities
As another initiative towards financial inclusion India Post has announced that it would be rolling out 150 branches of their core banking in the next two months.
[This article was published in the July 2011 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Industry News: July 2011
To accelerate the enrolment process in the Aadhaar project of UIDAI, the Karnataka government will shell out Rs 100 to every poor pensioner and job-seeker under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme.
Glodyne Technoserve Limited announced the acquisition of Comat Technologies, another solution provider of e-Governance services in India.
A Rs 57-crore data centre designed to meet requirements of Karnataka government for the next decade was set up recently. The centre will offer latest technologies including virtualisation and provide the servers on demand to various department of the government to facilitate e-Initiatives
India has rolled out over 94,000 Common Service Centres (CSCs), of the proposed one lakh, in 31 states and Union Territories to take Information Communication Technology (ICT) to the remotest part of the country
Despite all implementation challenges like business continuity, lack of administration capacity and indifference of line departments, the Department of Information Technology (DOIT) is doing a 9 to 9 job to push the e-Governance agenda in the state.
[This article was published in the April 2011 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Smart City 2011 Event
Karnataka is all set to open a business process outsourcing (BPO) centre – the first of its kind in the country
