Tamil Nadu (TN) State Government has finalised a bid for 40,000 Lenovo desktops, which can be installed with both Novell’s Suse Linux and Microsoft’s Windows XP Starter Edition in Tamil Nadu, India. The Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu (Elcot) will deploy the 40,000 Lenovo desktops in all schools and government departments of the state.
[This article was published in the March 2007 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Sharad Kulkarni, who also moderated the valedictory session, spoke about the Baramati Initiative.
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[This article was published in the February 2007 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
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Soon, the first Common Service Centre (CSC) will come in Jharkhand, India. The CSC is the single-gateway for Government-to-Citizen (G2C) services, under the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP).
Tamil Nadu (TN), the state of India is adopting open source software to solve security and high costs of Windows systems. The State Government has announced that the sate adopting SUSE Linux.
The State Bank of India (SBI) has decided to set up 5,000-6,000 rural kiosks to encourage banking habits among the rural people of India. SBI is trying to bring corporate sector for this programme.
[This article was published in the January 2007 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
From e-Sampark in Chandigarh and LokMitra in Himachal Pradesh to e-Seva in Andhra Pradesh and BangaloreOne in Bangalore, citizens are transacting government services in comfort without standing in a queue in the hot sun or pouring rain and being serviced by smiling courteous staff.
The Hyderabad Metro Water Supply and Sewerage Board are introducing electronic bill payment of water in the Tamil Nadu, India.
The Tamil Nadu Government is planning to set up new e-Governance Agency to drive e-Governance initiatives in Tamil Nadu, India.
