e-Governance for All Spheres of Govt by 2020
Second Administrative Reforms Commission (ARC) has suggested implementation of e-Governance in all spheres, at all levels of government by 2020 and proposed a legal framework for it in its report.
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India has 4.98 Million Wireless Internet Subscribers
Speaking in the Lok Sabha yesterday Minister of Communications and Information Technology, A. Raja informed that there are a total of 4.98 million Broadband subscribers in the country as on 31st October 2008. A list of State-wise number of Broadband subscribers is given below…
Hughes Partnering in 17,356 CSCs
State Service Agencies (SCA) are all set to partner with HughesNet Fusion for the rollout of the company’s services at 17,356 common service centres (CSCs) in states like Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Tripura, Sikkim, West Bengal, Bihar…
Current Status on State Wide Area Network
The Centre has released 478 crore rupees for providing connectivity to all Blocks/Tahsils/ District and State Headquarters under the “State Wide Area Network” (SWAN) scheme…
National ID Cards
Just in time before general elections, the Centre is serious about completing the pilot project of issuing multi-purpose national identity cards (MNICs) to citizens by March 2009.
1 Lakh Common Service Centres by July 2009
Government plans to establish One Lakh Common Service Centres (CSCs) in 600,000 villages,to provide IT enabled services to the people in the rural areas.Out of which 18,000 CSCs have already been set up.The CSC roll out is part of Department of Information technology’s steps to support Infrastructure under the National E-Governance Plan for enabling anytime, anywhere delivery of government services. Department of Information Technology would provide calibrated support through policy interventions and appropriate financial support to create the basic infrastructure for these 100,000 proposed CSCs. All these CSCs are scheduled to be operational by July next year.
Executive Movement
[This article was published in the October 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Raju Sharma, has been posted as Mission Director (Joint Director rank), in the Department of Science and Technology, Tech Info Forecasting
Tripura Hires PwC to Audit its SWAN, Makes it India’s First Third Party Auditor of the Project
PwC (Price waterhouse Coopers) has become the third party audit (TPA) agency for Tripura SWAN (State Wide Area Network) for a period of five years. Selected by a limited tender process by Department of Information Technology (DIT), they have become India’s first third party auditor for the project.
e-Governance not Beneficial for the Poor in India: Survey
India Corruption Study- 2007 by Transparency International India and the Centre for Media Studies has proved that computerisation of front-end government services, e-Governance, citizen charters and social audits have controlled corruption involving upper and middle classes but have not helped the poor.
India Formulating a National Policy on ICT in School Education
[This article was published in the July 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
How do teachers, administrators and policy makers feel about their experiences with technology?
