[This article was published in the June 2011 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Though e-Governance has taken off in full swing, but the bigger challenge is to reach out to the remotest areas of the country
[This article was published in the June 2011 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Bringing all NeGP projects under a single monitoring authority would accelerate the pace of implementation
[This article was published in the June 2011 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
In the coming years, India will have more younger population than any other country, thus literacy rate will be encouraging. Tendency towards ICT to avail Government services will, hence increase
[This article was published in the June 2011 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
There is no dearth of technology but infrastructure in rural areas is not so good and hence one has to look at solutions which are more pragmatic
[This article was published in the June 2011 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Given the scale and diversity of India, we will need to continually optimise our approach based on learnings from various NeGP projects
[This article was published in the June 2011 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
It is not about procurement of hardware and software but changing the way services are delivered to and accessed by the common man
[This article was published in the June 2011 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Making broadband available is just half the task done; the other half is training and capacity building
[This article was published in the June 2011 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
With our population, geographical spread, diversity of resources, disparity of skills e-Governance is indeed a very daunting task
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
India has inked a loan agreement with World Bank for 150 million dollars for the ‘e-Delivery of Public Services Development Policy Loan’ under the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP),
