eINDIA 2015 – Deepak Kumar, Secretary, Department of Information Technology, Government of Uttarakhand

Linking the Hills Our focus is mainly on connectivity and the citizen services. Like most of the states, Uttarakhand also […]

Competent to Handle SDC! : Rajesh Verma, Principal Director, Department of Information Technology, Government of Sikkim

Please give your views on the importance of Data Centres in the States. How do you correlate this technological intervention with good governance?
It is important to have a Data Centre in the states, as it would enable having a central repository of all databases and is very important in the present scenario.

Emerging States

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

The diverse land of India has diverse states. Since the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) was implemented in 2006, Indian states have tried to reap the benefits of electronic governance in their various spheres of activities

Target: 100% e-Literacy : Dr Ajay Kumar, Government of Kerala

100 percent household e-Literacy has been attained in Malappuram, Kannur, Kollam, Kazarkode, Kozhikode and Thrissur districts and post-literacy services like e-Pay, e-Krishi, e-Learning are being introduced here

Our Focus – Capacity Building : Pradipta Kumar Mohapatra, Government of Orissa

We have planned to float the RFP for the State Data Centre by the first week of January 2009 and completing all the tendering process by March 31, 2009

Attracting investments in ITeS : V S Bhaskar, Government of Assam, India

So far, 397 CSCs are operational and by March 31, 2009, the entire lot will be rolled out

Enhancing Sustainability of CSCs : Raj Kumar, Government of Gujarat

More than 90 percent of the CSCs have been completed in terms of installation of computers, furnitures and appointment of the operators by respective Service Center Agency (SCA) in four regions of the state

Roll Outs to happen in January

One Mandal in selected districts are proposed to be connected to three villages through WiMAX. New IP based video conference system is already in place

Large State: Larger Challenges : D S Srivastava, Government of Uttar Pradesh

17,909 CSCs will be setup during the year 2008-09

Quality of Services is Prime : Abhishek Singh, Government of Nagaland, India

We have a very rich resource in the form of English speaking, technology savvy youthful population that is ideal for employment in Information Technology Enabled Services (ITeS)