The rural administrative scenario of India especially the administration of Panchyati Raj Institutions across the nation is marked by both successful innovations and practices in public service delivery as well as a number of pathetic performances. The General weakness of accountability mechanisms is an impediment to improving service delivery system for the rural poor in…
Before taking over the reins of DeitY in February, Aruna Sharma was heading the department of panchayat and rural development in Madhya Pradesh. As secretary of DeitY, she is steering UIDAI and overseeing the execution of Digital India programme. In an interaction with Governance Now, she talks about the database-driven social welfare regime and uses…
New Delhi: Government plans to provide mobile connectivity in 55,669 villages by March 2019 in a phased manner. It will also commission a project to connect 8,621 villages in the north-eastern region by installing 321 mobile tower sites by September 2017, a note prepared by Department of Telecom (DoT) about the progress made during the…
TRANSPARENCY:Commissioner of Police Shailesh Kumar Yadav launching computerisation of FIRs at Tallakulam station in the city on Friday.— Photo: G. Moorthy As part of the State-wide initiative to improve transparency and accessibility Computerised registration of First Information Reports (FIRs) was launched in all police stations in Madurai City and Rural police limits on Friday as…
National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology (NIELIT), Kohima has commenced conducting “ICT skill training program for state government employees” under the theme “preparing northeast for digital India”, Thursday. Delivering a keynote address, director in-charge NIELIT Kohima, Er. Lanuwabang mentioned that the training program was part of the ongoing nationwide Digital India initiatives, with the…
It helps to remind oneself of the scale of Digital India, its magnitude and sweep: to provide e-governance and other e-services everywhere, including 250,000 gram panchayats serving another 400,000 villages. That includes all the backbone and aggregation networks, and institutional processes to get there. The links indigitalindia.gov.in, such as https://www.bbnl.nic.in/, illustrate what’s involved – and…
As Chairman of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), R S Sharma is on a hot seat. In his less than a year tenure, despite major controversial issues like net neutrality and differential pricing, he has upheld the basic tenet of the TRAI Act — taking care of consumer interest and promote competition in a…