18 IAS transferred in Madhya Pradesh, Vishesh Garhpale appointed Secretary Energy 

In a move aimed at strengthening administrative efficiency and enhancing governance delivery, the Madhya Pradesh government has ordered a major […]

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

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)

Chhattisgarh Setting Example : Aman Kumar Singh, Government of Chhattisgarh, India

CGSWAN is the largest WiMAX 802.16d deployment in Asia connecting 3,000 Government offices of the state government

Banking on Pawan : Narinderjit Singh, Government of Punjab

All Tehsils will be providing computerised Land Records by March 2009

PPP: Philosophy of Success : Anurag Jain, Government of Madhya Pradesh, India

MP was the first state to put cyber treasury in place whereby citizens can avail the facility by making anytime, anywhere tax/fee payments

Computer Literacy Boosting e-Governance : B K Agarwal, Government of Himachal Pradesh, India

Non-Availability of enough funds is a magor roadblock in the implementation of e-Governance in Himachal Pradesh

Tapping the Advantage of ICT Literacy : Ram Muivah, Government of Manipu

Employment Exchange, Finance Department, e-Procurement, Land Records, Geographical Information System (GIS) for administrative planning will be given priority in the future