The Government at your beck and call: You may admire the Narendra Modi government or dislike it. But you cannot deny that it is one of the most digitally savvy administrations we have had in India. The digital smarts and social media popularity of the Prime Minister and his Cabinet are now being actively leveraged…
Now, g-governance ushers in new information regime via GIS portal: The Karnataka Geographic Information System or K-GIS portal was launched by IT Minister Priyank Kharge and the department’s Principal Secretary V Manjula.
CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu has the highest number of broadband internet subscribers in the country. As on March 31 this year, of the total 149.75 million broadband users in the country, 14.89 million were in Tamil Nadu, figures released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) show.
The government launched the Digital India programme in July last year aiming to transform the entire ecosystem of public services through the use of information technology. According to the programme’s official website, the vision is to ‘transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy.’ The pharmaceutical sector followed suit with the launch of…
Indian delegation of 23 Chief Information Officers visited Estonia this week, 11 – 15 of April – in order to examine how e-government systems work. During their visit the delegation gathered ideas for the development of Digital India. One of the organizer Mrs Caralyn Khongwar Deshmukh, from National e Governance Division, Govt of India pointed…
Make Jammu and Kashmir corruption free! As the chief minister Ms Mehbooba Mufti asserted that her government will utilize e-services so that work is completed on-time and corruption is routed out, social and e-governance activists in J&K state have petitioned her office to take immediate steps to implement the laws. An online petition signed by scores…
Stressing on the need to utilise technology for improving health standards of people, union health minister JP Nadda launched various e-health initiatives on the occasion of World Health Day on Thursday. With UNICEF’s support, the ministry launched a tablet based application ‘ANMOL’ which will allow the auxiliary nurse widwives (ANMs) to enter and update the…
Hamstrung by the shortage of staff, lack of budgetary support, declining public patronage and stiff competition from other e-governance services, the network of Friends Janasevana Kendras is struggling to stay afloat, even as the government remains indecisive on the recommendation of an Assembly committee to phase out the citizen service centres. Started in 2000 as…
The robust growth of India’s information technology industry is attributed to a multitude of factors including growing middle class, rising disposable income and various government initiatives such as broadband connectivity to villages, rural electrification and e-governance programs. The government’s “Digital India” program aims to reach every citizen’s home and office. To increase technology penetration across…
In a first of its kind e-governance initiative, Rajasthan has created a pioneering IT infrastructure to create a state wide network to deliver citizen services and e-governance initiatives. Christened RajNET—this network will cover all 9,894 gram panchayats, 183 municipal areas along with all district and block headquarters. This is first of its kind network in…