e-Governance at Gram Panchayat level in India
The Ministry of Panchayati Raj, India, is preparing a mission mode project for e-Governance at the Gram Panchayat level under the National e-Governance Plan.
The Ministry of Panchayati Raj, India, is preparing a mission mode project for e-Governance at the Gram Panchayat level under the National e-Governance Plan.
The growing use of IT in government departments of India is the fact that Government of India (GoI) has acknowledged the potential of IT and started looking at it as a component of progress.
The unveiling of the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) blueprint by the Union government of India is a step laden with huge significance. The ambitious project, costing Rs 23,000 crore, is to be implemented in the next five years at both the central and state levels.
The Union Government of India is likely to add a new project called `e-District’ to the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) to cover local high-volume services.
The Chief Minister of Orissa Mr. Naveen Patnaik unveiled the e-Governance and capacity building road maps for the State. He said this initiative would make the administration efficient by ensuring greater transparency and accountability in delivery of public service to facilitate moral and material progress of all citizens.
Information Technology Minister, India, Dayanidhi Maran unveiled 26 mission mode projects under the National e-Governance Plan, which would cost the Government around Rs 23,000 crore over the next five years to make its services more accessible to people electronically.
[This article was published in the June 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
e-Governance is more about opportunity for administrative reforms than just electronics, IT and infrastructure. If we miss this opportunity to re-engineer government processes before computerisation, the cost will be enormous.
The Cabinet of India will take up the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) Phase I for approval. The multi-million dollar project partly funded by the World Bank, would pave the way for implementation of mission mode projects for radically improving the efficiency of governance in the country through the adoption of information technology tools, if approved.
The Dataquest e-Gov Summit, 2006. held in New Delhi, discussed the challenges in the implementation of the National e-Governance project and how to overcome them.
[This article was published in the February 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
The two areas-Agriculture and Health being so close to the hearts of many, a high level of interest and participation by the delegates was observed during the National e-Governance Seminar