With the trial run of e-Passport centres beginning at Chandigarh, Ambala and Ludhiana, the central government has set the ball rolling for the implementation of an ambitious project of computerised passport service centres across the country. With an aim to streamline the issuance of passports, the central government plans to open around 77 such centres in various states. The existing ...

The Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has chalked out an ambitious plan to add to its subscriber base in western Maharashtra and the number of its base stations in the region.Union minister of state for communications and information technology, Sachin Pilot, told that the BSNL has also made preparations for the e-District project for e-Governance in three districts of Maharashtra ...

The government of Maldives launched an Internet portal consisting of information from government agencies for public and business uses.As part of the e-Government project initiated to provide government services with the most advanced technology, the Internet portal consists of important information from government agencies.While more than 300 forms of different government agencies can be downloaded from "egov.mv," accessible in both ...

Punjab State e-Governance Society through Department of IT, Punjab announces the implementation of e-District Solution using Humanitics e-District Platform. The state government and HCL Infosystems Ltd. entered into an agreement to deliver e-District Services to the citizen. HCL Infosystems shall deliver a state of the art platform to deliver electronic services to the common citizen. Humanitics Dimension's e-District platform is ...

UID authority acknowledges that Children's fingerprints are not fully formed and hence cannot be used for de-duplication given current state of technology. Hence during enrollment, children will be assigned a UID number and in their case details of parents will be captured to authenticate the child. The authority plans to take the child's biometrics details when they are well formed ...

Max Healthcare has adopted cloud computing, which will enable doctors to access patient's data from across all facilities, thus speeding up treatment and services.Cloud computing refers to a pay-per-use model, where applications and software are accessed over Internet and not owned by users, which results in saving on IT budget to the company. The deployment is a part of the ...

Unique Identification Authority of India in a few weeks time will allot the first set of Aadhaar numbers. The residents of Andhra Pradesh's Chittoor district will be the first to receive unique identification numbers in the country. The Aadhaar numbers would help the residents in the country side and urban slum to exert their identity for availing a number government ...

There is an inevitable need for informing and educating citizen, human resource in the government and the industry towards the Cyber threats, which has grown more organised and targeted. This concern was echoed in a conference on Cyber Security organised by Confederation of India Industries (CII) on Wednesday. It also called for new organisational structures, greater awareness and coordination between ...

Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan has said the the state would launch electronic complain system where in a resident could file a police complain through Internet, mitigating the need for going down to the Police Station. By Mid of October, the eComplain system would be launched in Mumbai and Pune and then later to be scaled to the whole of ...

The project of Providing Urban-amenities in Rural Area (PURA), modeled by the Ministry of Rural Development, has potential to scale up rural infrastructure in India in a big way. Accounting for about Rs 20,000 per capita, the PURA project is expected to cover 2,50,000 panchayats in the next 5 to 8 years and provide superior municipal services in rural areas ...

The Bihar government is building state-of-the-art e-Kisan Bhawan at block level to extend benefits of Information Technology (IT) to the agriculture sector of the state. Construction work of e-Kisan Bhawan is in progress in 324 blocks out of the total 534 blocks in the state.To be equipped with genset and Internet connection, the e-Kisan bhawan would act as a information ...

The Union Minister for Food Processing Industries inaugurated an e-portal that aims to bring together farmers, suppliers and customers.The portal, called www.efreshindia.com has been designed by a private company and aims to empower Indian agriculture, said an official release. Based on a food chain concept, it creates connectivity between the suppliers and the buyers through a trading platform.The portal will ...

Dubai eGovernment reveal that there has been a 60 per cent increase in amounts collected through Dubai eGovernment's ePay payment gateway in the first half of 2010, compared to the corresponding period last year. ePay enables customers to electronically pay their bills and settle dues for various government services, in a safe and secure manner.During the first six months of ...

Government employees in Bahrain are being offered e-training courses to enable them to deal with new advancements in technology, it was announced yesterday. A Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the Bahrain Public Administration Institute (BIPA) and the eGovernment Authority to implement the Micro e-Learning project.It will provide training on administrative guidelines and organisation policies to government employees.The project would ...

Like banks, the Postal Department is planning to provide Core Banking Services (CBS) to its customers in Uttar Pradesh. Once this plan is executed, the customers can debit or credit money in any computerised post office of the state on the line of 'banking at anytime, anywhere'.For this purpose the Postal Department has begun short listing the computerised post offices ...

The Ministry of Minority Affairs (MOMA), Government of India, has envisaged d to undertake a landmark e-governance project to computerize wakf records. Wakf Management System of India (WAMSI) is a three-year project beginning from 2009. In its ambit, it has onus to computerize records of 29 State Wakf Boards (SWBs) as mentioned in Wakf Act, 1995 and Jammu & Kashmir ...

Coimbatore was one of the six districts that would come under e-Governance in the State soon. The public could go to common service centres, internet browsing centres or use the computer at home to get various certificates such as birth, death, nativity and community, with a digital signature of the official concerned. For every three villages, one common service centre ...

The Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) is all set to start 26 more kiosks in the city to enable consumers pay their water bills 24/7 and also increase revenue collection. The new kiosks will be set up at a cost of Rs 2.9 crore. While some of these kiosks will be set up in core areas of the ...

As part of its drive to bring in academic excellence and better administration, the Jharkhand government has decided to integrate all the universities and their affiliated colleges with high-speed broadband service. All the institutions of higher education would be integrated under a Web enabled system to bring in academic excellence and better administrationThe proposed plan of interlinking all colleges and ...

In a fresh e-Governance initiative, the Uttarakhand government has launched SMS GPF services to help state government employees track status of their General Provident Fund (GPF) accounts at the click of a mouse.With this, Uttarakhand has become the second state to offer these services after Tamil Nadu. This facility has been jointly launched by the Office of the Comptroller and ...

The e-Gram project of the Punjab government aimed at providing important citizen services in rural areas of the state would be operational by December2010. The centres in 3,017 panchayat clusters, besides monitoring expenditure in panchayats, will provide 14 crucial citizen services to all the 12,800 villages in Punjab.The eight states in the country, including neighbouring Himachal Pradesh, have already set ...

All the websites of the Uttarakhand State Government would now be linked to the State Service Delivery Gateway (SSDG) portal. It would be an upgraded form of the website being presently used by the state government.The SSDG aims to provide convenient services to the people by the medium of remote access through Common Service Centres (CSCs) and providing facilities of ...

The Jhansi Jan Suvidha Kendra (JJSK), part of the district's e-governance mechanism, has been functional for nearly 13 months in Uttar Pradesh and has quietly been at work, addressing complaints from over 20,000 families since its inception in 2009. The system, which most of the senior government functionaries are now trooping in to see and replicate, works on a relatively ...

Gujarat has unveiled a single stop portal for all its e-governance services. More than 50 G2C services will be made available to the people of the state through this portal. Government service applications like VAT (Value Added Tax), HMIS (hospital management), e-dhara (revenue records), e-procurement, swagat (public grievance portal), jan suvidha kendra at district collectorates and city civic centres in ...

The IT@School project would implement a Model ICT School programme in selected High Schools in all the 140 constituencies in Kerala. The programme is aimed at enhancing the teaching and learning process at school, equipping the teachers and students to make maximum use of ICT tools available at schools, thereby setting up their school as the ultimate Knowledge Hub and ...