Govt a click away in West Bengal

The Siliguri sub-division of West Bengal recently got its official website and thus became the first sub-division in West Bengal to have an official web address…

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.

The Sorrow of Bihar

[This article was published in the October 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

AMD deploys for Gram Panchayat eGovernance Project in West Bengal

The Government of West Bengal announced that the AMD Athlon X2 dual-core processor based desktops for the Gram Panchayat eGovernance project were successfully deployed in the state.

India: West Bengal completes rural e-Governance project

The West Bengal (India) Government has successfully completed a rural e-Governance programme in the state in association with microprocessor manufacturing major Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).

India Formulating a National Policy on ICT in School Education

[This article was published in the August 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

How do teachers, administrators and policy makers feel about their experiences with technology?

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?