Soon all the Indian secretaries at the centre and state chief secretaries will have virtual meetings every day as the centre has begun implementing a programme worth INR 1.5 crore, introducing desktop video conferencing to enable them take quick decisions and expedite the response time. The project is expected to be completed within two months.
Now India will have indigenous Operating System for the country’s various e-Governance projects. In this regard, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Department of Information Technology has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with National Informatics Centre.
National Informatics Centre, Government of India, which is the nodal agency for providing backbone support for all e-Governance initiative in the country, is said to come up with two Data Centres of tier 2 and 3 claas standards in two Indian cities – Pune and Hyderabad.
Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA) announced that people can check the status of their building plan applications online. They have to log onto the CMDA website and collect all the necessary details.
The Commercial Taxes Department in the Southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu launched several e-Services. This move is aimed at the benefiting the business community, which includes online refund claim for exporters, e-Request for saleable forms and fast track clearance system.
Police in the eastern Indian state of Bihar will soon introduce paper less operations in its police stations across the state. The state police is introducing a software named CIPA (Crime Investigation Police Application) which will allow registration of First Information Reports (FIRs) through the Internet.
The Government of Nagaland (Northeast Indian State) launched the computerisation of arms license and account roll for Dimapur district. This initiative will help the people of the state to have easy access to records, renewal and to access data whenever there is any query on arms licenses.
[This article was published in the August 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
“SDC being a critical infrastructure requiring uptime of the highest order, selection of right technology, monitoring, operation/management and conformance to the security and data privacy will be major issues to be addressed,” says S P Singh, Senior Director, Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Information and Communication Technology.
[This article was published in the June 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
A data centre is a facility used to house computer systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems.
