The State Government of Haryana, India, is planning to deploy a statewide area network entitled ADHAAR that will connect the state headquarter office at Chandigarh to all the district head quarters at the Block/ Sub-Division/ Tehsil/ Sub- Tehsil levels to support all its e-Governance initiatives.
The State of Haryana in India is establishing a communication corridor that would enable Haryana government to take IT enabled citizen services to rural areas of the state, using various e-Governance initiatives and to manage the state government’s projects and programmes.
The Bihar government is finally taking steps to catch up with other developed states by equipping all of their 26 ministers with sophisticated laptop computers under the national e-Governance plan of the Central government.
[This article was published in the July 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Education is all about giving children the opportunity to experience a variety of things and definitely, the world of technology and all its associated paraphernalia is an important experience that every child must undergo.
Microsoft has partnered with the Gujarat government to enable effective e-Governance under Project Bhasha.
In the first step towards e-Governance, the State government of Mizoram in India has launched its own indigenous special software called ‘Office Procedure Automation Software’, developed by the State’s ICT cell.
[This article was published in the June 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
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Engineering students in Karnataka will now handle e-Governance initiatives of the state government. In a novel scheme aimed at addressing e-Governance glitches faced by several government departments, the Board for IT Education Standards (BITES) in association with the IT department and IBM has launched Project INVITE (Initiative to Nurture a Vibrant Information Technology Ecosystem).
The government of Haryana and Intel India join their hands together to equip teachers of Haryana to became professionally well in the computerised environment in schools.
[This article was published in the April 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
The State of Maharashtra adopted the Employment Guarantee Scheme (EGS) as early as 1965 to alleviate poverty by providing gainful employment to the poorer sections of the community in the rural area.
