The pleasant surprise may turn into reality if and when the Gujarat government is planning to introduce its ambitious ‘Faceless 24×7 Governance’ scheme. The state government is aiming towards completing the programme of providing hassle-free services to the people by May 1, 2010.
INR 670 million order from Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) for supply, implementation and maintenance of the latter’s rural mobile wimax project has been bagged by Gemini Communication.
The Government has proposal to provide computer facility with internet to all the Police Stations in the country, including Delhi. All the Police Stations would be extended such facility before March, 2010. Planning Commission has provided an outlay of INR 2,000 crores for utilization in 11th Five Year Plan…
At a curtain raiser ceremony for the forthcoming India telecom 2008 event in New Delhi yesterday, the Minister of Communications and IT, Thiru A. Raja has reiterated that the process of allotment of spectrum for 3G will be completed by January 2009…
In a move for becoming communication friendly, the Lower House of the Indian Parliament — Lok Sabha has collaborated with enterprise mobile messaging services provider – ValueFirst which will enable the House to keep in contact with its members.
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, India announced the establishment of 60,000 Common Service Centres (CSCs) in rural India by the end of the financial year.
In the upcoming Lok Sabha next year, Bharatiya Janata Party is planning to use technologies such as free and open-source software, which will bring video conferencing, Internet telephony and unified communication to approximately four million party workers by the year 2011.
The Government of India will soon invite tenders from telecom service providers to set up rural networks for which subsidy would be provided from the Universal Service Obligation (USO) Fund. Around INR 99 billion fund is lying with the centre.
[This article was published in the January 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
The seminar titled
