National News: April 2009

[This article was published in the April 2009 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Certified Course on Internet Surfing For Just Rs 125

News and VIews National

[This article was published in the April 2009 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Learn internet surfing for just Rs 125 at 2,000-odd Sify cybercafes through the country in just a ten hour course. Participants completing

Movements

[This article was published in the April 2009 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Executive Movements

Servers of MEA Hacked

Servers of the Ministry of External Affairs(MEA) have been hacked. Though the government does not have any specific idea about who the hackers were, the IP addresses left behind suggested the hand of Chinese. Indian officials are already on their way to China to investigate the matter further.

Towards Securing India

[This article was published in the March 2009 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

National security has become the top agenda for the Government of India, especially after the 26/11 Mumbai attacks.

Redefining Passport Seva : Tanmoy Chakrabarty, Tata Consultancy Services, India

“The countrywide roll-out of the Passport Seva Project will take place within 9months”saysTanmoyChakrabarty, Vice President, Global Government Business Group, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) in an exclusive interview to Sandeep Budki of egov magazine.

Passport Seva Project:Expectations Go Up

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

The Passport Seva project began as one of the 27 Mission Mode Projects listed in the NeGP. The e-governance project aims, to issue a new passport within threedays and shorten queue time.

Passport Alerts on Mobile

Passport Seva Project- The good news for ‘aam janta’ is that apart from the information of the progress of the passprt applications on web they would also be receiving alerts on their mobile numbers, that have been provided during filling of application, about the status of their application.

Passport Seva Project

At New Delhi,India,on October 13th 2008,Tata Consultancy Services announced that it has a signed a deal with the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Government of India, for the Passport Automation Project – the largest mission-critical E-governance project valued at over Rs.10,000 million.

Executive Movement

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

Raju Sharma, has been posted as Mission Director (Joint Director rank), in the Department of Science and Technology, Tech Info Forecasting