The West Bengal (India) Government is planning to set up common services centres (CSCs) in each of the 4,562 panchayats in the state by Mach 31, 2008. These CSCs will allow villagers to avail services like registration of certificates, filing commercial taxes among others.
The information technology (IT) sector in West Bengal is likely to add 20,000 jobs in 2008. Currently the state has about 300 small to big sized companies and employs 55,000.
Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu have successfully implemented State-Wide Area Network (SWAN), the backbone infrastructure for rolling out the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP). All the three states have opted for the private-public partnership (PPP) mode for the project.
Oracle offers governments robust, integrated information architecture comprising both technology and applications, which is based on open standards. As Indian governments start to use Oracle database, middleware and applications, we think the new features in our software can greatly help Indian governments, tells Krishan Dhawan, Managing Director, Oracle India, in an interview with egov magazine.
[This article was published in the February 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
china’s ICT ready to boom
Syedain Abbasi, an officer from the 1990 batch of Indian Administrative Service joined the Department of Information Technology in February 2004. Currently he is handling the preparation and monitoring implementation of the National e-Governance Plan.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has established 291 Village Resource Centres (VRCs) to provide integrated services, including tele-education, tele-medicine, natural resources information and skill development in rural India.
[This article was published in the October 2007 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
In Fact
Tulip IT Services Limited (Tulip) has announced that it has been awarded with the West Bengal State Wide Area Network Project.
[This article was published in the September 2007 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
The egov India 2007 conference was part of the eINDIA 2007 event.
