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)

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

Second Best State in e-Governance : HP after Delhi

Himachal Pradesh has been declared as the second best state in the country in e-governance. This premier award in the area of e-governance will be given to the state for providing the best IT related initiatives…

Policing in the Information Age

[This article was published in the December 2007 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Information Technology (IT) has created new opportunities to manage the police force better, and to investigate criminal cases more efficiently. At the same time,
it has given rise to increasing cyber-crimes. The police must gear up to face the increasing challenges on this front, and contribute to the healthy development of the IT sector in the country.

India: AP plans for 2,000 Rajiv Internet Villages

Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (AP) directed officials to accelerate setting up of at least 2,000 Rajiv Internet Villages by the end of this 2006.

Automated Jharkhand government to be more transparent, responsive : Ram Sewak Sharma, IT Secretary, Jharkhand, India

“Our government has taken the decision that the entire internal functioning of the government has to be automated so that can bring about transparency and responsiveness. We have learnt lessons from the e-Government projects of other states also.